Male gender, old age, use of urinary tract catheter, longer pre-prevalence period, and comorbidity were all factors affecting patient outcome.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen which causes a variety of infections including bacteremia in burns patients, urinary tract catheter infections and chronic colonisation of the lungs of Cystic Fibrosis patients [ 1].
Gokula et al 2007 used a safety checklist for patients with an indwelling urinary tract catheter (IUTC) [ 8], while Romagnuolo et al 2005 implemented a post-endoscopy checklist [ 9].
The following variables were recorded for each patient: sex, age, season of admission (spring, summer, autumn and winter), elective versus emergency admission, surgical procedure, use of urinary tract catheter (permanent and intermittent catheter) and antibiotic therapy.
The hazard ratios were estimated by crude models as well as after controlling for year of inclusion (continuous), time period (categorical calendar quarters), patient's sex (woman, man), patient's age (continuous), type of admission to hospital (acute, elective), surgical operation (no, yes), and use of urinary tract catheter (no, intermittent/permanent).
Patients from whom MDR bacteria was isolated and who were diagnosed with systemic infection or pneumonia, and catheter, urinary tract, and wound site infection (the definition of MDR-related systemic infection, pneumonia, urinary tract, catheter, or wound site infection was made according to the criteria of the CDC [ 16]).
Other entry points for infection are intravenous (IV) and urinary tract catheters, tubes that allow liquids to enter or leave a patient's body.
Introduction: Patients at the Intensive care units have an increased risk of infection due to their underlying diseases or conditions, impaired immunity, and exposure to multiple invasive procedures (surgery, mechanical ventilation, central venous catheters, artherial catheters, urinary tract catheters).
Urinary tract, catheter-related and bloodstream infections were also observed, but their frequencies were not statistically different between the two groups (data not shown).
A silver-palladium-gold alloy coating ('Bactiguard®'Infection Protection, BIP) has been extensively used on urinary tract catheters and lately also on central venous catheters.
Seventeen percent of the patients had urinary tract catheters (13.8 % permanent and 2.9 % intermittent) and 26.2 % of the patients received antibiotics.
