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Reducing infant catheterization in the emergency department through clean‐catch urine collection

OBJECTIVE: Our emergency department (ED) traditionally relied on urethral catheterization to obtain urine cultures when evaluating infants for urinary tract infections (UTIs). Catheterization is associated with adverse effects, and recent studies have demonstrated clean‐catch urine methods can be su...

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Autores principales: Mulcrone, Amanda E., Parikh, Manas, Ahmad, Fahd A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33392562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12211