Urinary tract infections (UTIs)

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are more susceptible in patients that have an indwelling catheter for longer periods of time, versus patients with short-time use (Letica-Kriegel et al., 2019). For this reason, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) to their list of health care-acquired conditions (HACs), and so that hospitals create risk management strategies to prevent this from happening in patients (CMS, 2021).