Internal Reference Number: FOI_7878
Date Request Received: 10/04/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 03/05/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Catheters
Request Category: Companies
Question Number 1: 1. How many patients received a urinary catheter in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to parts 1, 2 and 3 of this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: FOI_7878 - Catheters responses Q1 -3 .xlsx | |
Question Number 2: 2. How many Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections were recorded in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to parts 1, 2 and 3 of this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
Question Number 3: 3. How many urinary tract infections were recorded in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 3: Please see our response to parts 1, 2 and 3 of this FOI in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
Question Number 4: 4. What was the total cost of urinary tract infections in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 4: The Trust are able to calculate the total cost of individual patient treatment episodes, but are unable to extract the element relating to Urinary Tract Infections in each one. | |
Question Number 5: 5. How many prescriptions were dispensed in relation to Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 5: CAUTIs are coded the same way as other LUTIs and without auditing all notes we do not hold this information in an easily recordable format. | |
Question Number 6: 6. How many patients received antibiotics in relation to Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 6: Same as response to Q5 | |
Question Number 7: 7. How many patients received two or more antibiotics in relation to a single Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in each of the following calendar years: o 2023 o 2022 o 2021 | |
Answer To Question 7: Response same to Q5 | |
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