Zhilin Jin, Ruijie Yin, Eric Christopher Brown, Bhavarth Shukla, Brandon Hochahn Lee, Safaa Abdulaziz-Alkhawaja, Tahera Anwar Magray, Hala Mounir Agha, Amal El-Sisi, Amani Ali El-Kholy, Victor Bayani, Mohammad Abdellatif Daboor, Majeda Afeef Al Ruzzieh, Ertugrul Guclu, Esra Olmez-Gazioglu, Oguz Dursun, Tuğçe Tural Kara, Iftihar Koksal, Ahmet Eroglu, Merve Havan, Tanıl Kendirli, Suna Secil Ozturk Deniz, Gizem Aktas, Dincer Yildizdas, Ozden Ozgur Horoz, Emel Okulu, Yasemin Ezgi Kostekci, Abeer Aly Omar, Ziad A Memish, Victor Daniel Rosenthal
OBJECTIVES: To identify urinary catheter (UC)-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) incidence and risk factors (RF) in nine Middle Eastern countries. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study between 1 January 2014 and 2 December 2022 in 212 intensive care units (ICUs) of 67 hospitals in 38 cities in nine Middle Eastern countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE). To estimate CAUTI incidence, we used the number of UC days as denominator and the number of CAUTIs as numerator...
November 2023: Oman Medical Journal