Letter to the Editor Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/nephrology.3.009
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections by Decreasing Unnecessary Foley Catheter Use in Hospitalized Patients
Vuha Reddi1, Oleg Sostin2,*, Georgina Carlson3, Polina Pinkhasova1, Gustavo Alday1
- 1Department of Medicine, Danbury Hospital, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT 06810, USA
- 2Department of Research, Danbury Hospital, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT 06810, USA
- 3Department of Quality, Danbury Hospital, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT 06810, USA
Corresponding Author
Oleg Sostin, Oleg.Sostin@nuvancehealth.org
Received Date: May 10, 2022
Accepted Date: February 06, 2023
Reddi V, Sostin O, Carlson G, Pinkhasova P, Alday G. A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections by Decreasing Unnecessary Foley Catheter Use in Hospitalized Patients. Arch Nephrol Ren Stud. 2023;3(1):1-2.
Copyright: © 2022 Reddi V, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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