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ArticleAmerican journal of infection control2022

Journal club: "Racial disparities in catheter related urinary tract infections among elderly trauma patients in the US".

Diana Cervantes, Hillary Hei

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Article in American journal of infection control, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diana CervantesSchool of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, TX. Electronic address: Diana.Cervantes@unthsc.edu.
Hillary HeiECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA.
ECRI Institute · USUniversity of North Texas · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article for Journal Club commentary entitled "Racial Disparities in Catheter Related Urinary Tract Infections Among Elderly Trauma Patients in the US", Keneally et al, conducted a study with the goal of assessing the role of social disparities in catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). This cross-sectional study utilized secondary data to determine the possible CAUTI risk in ventilated, older (≥ 65 years of age) trauma patients exploring possible racial structural bias in healthcare. The analysis addressed the following questions in this specific population:While this study does consider race and discusses structural biases, which are important and sparsely researched in healthcare-associated infection (HAI) outcomes, the practice implementations are somewhat limited due to study design and analysis. Therefore, the focus of this Journal Club commentary will be reviewing basic steps Infection Preventionists (IPs) can take to critically appraise the literature for application in their facility's patient population.

Indexed as

Catheter-Related InfectionsCross InfectionUrinary Tract InfectionsAgedCathetersCross-Sectional StudiesHumansUrinary Catheterization

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PMID34955189
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