Not Paying for Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
More Difficult Than it Seems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9101482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin E Clark (0000-0001-6779-3736, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School), Karen M Clements (0000-0001-9538-8586, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 479-481 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000139 |
| PMID | 24824534 |
| OpenAlex | W2025373070 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Policy interventions that attempt to influence patient care can be hard to implement and their desired outcomes can be slow to achieve. The efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce preventable infections by withholding payment for additional expenses related to catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) illustrate this challenge clearly
Center (category theory) · Family medicine · Health care · Library science · Medicaid · Medical education · Medical school · Political science · Principal (computer security) · Research center · Law · Medicine · Pelvic floor disorders treatments · Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research · Urinary Tract Infections Management
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |