TY - JOUR AU - Maki, Dennis AU - Tambyah, Paul T1 - Engineering out the Risk of Infection with Urinary Catheters T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 342 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection. Each year, more than 1 million patients in U.S. acute-care hospitals and extended-care facilities acquire such an infection; the risk with short-term catheterization is 5% per day. CAUTI is the second most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection, and studies suggest that patients with CAUTI have an increased institutional death rate, unrelated to the development of urosepsis. Novel urinary catheters impregnated with nitrofurazone or minocycline and rifampin or coated with a silver alloy-hydrogel exhibit antiinfective surface activity that significantly reduces the risk of CAUTI for short-term catheterizations not exceeding 2-3 weeks. KW - catheter KW - catheter-associated urinary tract infection KW - cross-infection KW - nosocomial infection KW - urinary catheter KW - urinary tract infection KW - urosepsis KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0702.700342 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0342_article ER - End of Reference