How can CultureStat aid in the detection of hospital-acquired infections?
TM. Because Medicare no longer reimburses for the treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, hospitals are seeking accurate, efficient methods for testing both present-on-admission (POA) urinary tract infections as well as hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) for patients who receive catheters during the hospital stay. CultureStat is the perfect solution for testing for POA infections and HAIs for the following reasons: CultureStat requires very little operator time (15-30 seconds per sample), testing is extremely easy to complete, initial results on fresh samples are available in less than a minute, and are confirmed in one hour, and all results are automatically stored in the CultureStat Database, eliminating the need for additional recordkeeping. Can CultureStat be used for the screening of all urine samples sent to the laboratory for microbial analysis? TM. Absolutely. Statistically, 75-85 percent of all urine culture samples tested in laboratories are negative. Labo
