. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 26.

Published in final edited form as: BMJ Qual Saf. 2021 Nov 25;31(4):308–321. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2021-013839

Table 1:

Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)

Definition of CAUTI	Pickard 2012³⁸	Rupp 2004³⁶	Lai 2002³⁹	Karchmer 2000⁴³	Saint 2000⁴²	Cartwright 2018⁴¹	Pashnik 2017⁴⁴	Anderson 2011³³	van den Broek 2011³⁵	Saint 2005³⁷	Quinn 2015⁴⁰	Clarke 2013³⁴	Palmer 2019⁴⁷	Mitchell 2019⁴⁸
NHSN^* Surveillance Criteria before 2015⁵⁶	X		X	X				X				X
NHSN Surveillance Criteria 2015 and after⁴⁵ ^†							X
Study-specific definition		X			X				X	X			X
Not specified in study						X					X			X

United States National Healthcare Safety Network

^†

changes to the NHSN surveillance criteria were made to improve specificity by excluding candiduria and lower bacteriuria levels (i.e., <10⁵ cfu).