Maintenance of Health Documentation as a Part of the Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections Related to Urinary Bladder Catheterisation

Abstract

Background: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) accounts for more than a third of healthcare-associated infections. Maintaining documentation on bladder catheterisation is one of the steps how to prevent the infections in question, and the electronic form of the documentation in the clinical information system is clearly recommended. aim: Among other things, the aim of the investigation was to map how to maintain the documentation on urinary catheterisation in hospitals providing acute inpatient care in the Czech Republic, what data is recorded and whether documentation audits are carried out. The relation between the data in the catheterisation documentation and the care of the patient with the urinary catheter and between the individual hospital types was also observed. Methods: Quantitative research. results and discussion: Ten record areas were observed: recording of the catheterisation date, name of the catheterisation performing health care professional, records of the catheter size and type catheter care, collection system replacement, indication and complications related to catheterisation, urine sampling for testing and results, and documentation audits 98.2% respondents confirmed keeping the records of the catheterisation date in the documentation. There were statistically significant differences in the type of hospital and answers to the questions whether urinary catheter care is always recorded in the documentation (p-value = 0.010, G = 13.253) and whether the replacement of the urinary system is always recorded (p-value = 0.002, G = 17.196). conclusion: The recommendation of professional companies in the case of CAUTI prevention is, among other measures, the maintenance of catheterisation documentation and, more importantly, control of the records.