Urethral Catheters, Condom Catheters, and Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infections
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Management of short-term indwelling urethral catheters to prevent urinary tract infections.
BACKGROUND This systematic review updates a previous review published in 2000. The objective of this review was to present the best available evidence relating to the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (UTI). SELECTION CRITERIA This review considered randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of adult patients with short-term urethral catheters. In the absence of RCTs, other ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700003751