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Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection. Each year, more than 1 million patients in U.S. acute-care hospitals and extended-care facilities acquire such an infection; the risk with short-term catheterization is 5% per day. CAUTI is the second most c...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2001
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11294737 |