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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2012 Sep 4;157(5):305–312. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-157-5-201209040-00003

Appendix Figure 1. Hospital ratesa of non-catheter-associated UTIs and catheter-associated UTIs In 2009 as hospital-acquired and present-on-admission events.

Appendix Figure 1

Four Michigan hospitals listed invalid POA codes for all diagnoses and all hospitalizations in the 2009 HCUP-ID dataset (black bars). Because an invalid POA code generates an error, invalid codes would be corrected by hospitals prior to final submission to payers.

UTI: Urinary Tract Infection; non-CAUTI: Non-catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection; CAUTI: Catheter-associated Urinary Trad Infecton.

aHospital's rate of diagnosis calculated as the percentage of each hospital's adult discharges with the indicated diagnosis.