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Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review

BACKGROUND: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary urinary catheter (UC) use. METHODS: To summarise interventions to reduce UC use and CAUTIs, we updated a prior systematic review (through October 2012), and a meta-analys...

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Autores principales: Meddings, Jennifer, Rogers, Mary A M, Krein, Sarah L, Fakih, Mohamad G, Olmsted, Russell N, Saint, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24077850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001774