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    Chenoweth, Carol E. and Saint, Sanjay 2016. Urinary Tract Infections. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, Vol. 30, Issue. 4, p. 869.
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Urinary Catheter Indications in the United States: Results from a National Survey of Acute Care Hospitals

  • M. Todd Greene (a1) (a2), Hiroko Kiyoshi-Teo (a3), Heidi Reichert (a1) (a2), Sarah Krein (a1) (a2) (a4) and Sanjay Saint (a1) (a2) (a4)...
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In a survey of acute care hospitals across the United States, we found that many hospitals use indwelling urinary catheters for reasons that are not medically necessary (eg, urinary incontinence without outlet obstruction and patient/family requests). Our findings highlight an opportunity to reduce unnecessary catheter use through promoting awareness of appropriate use.

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COPYRIGHT: © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014
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a. Address correspondence to M. Todd Greene, PhD, MPH, University of Michigan Medical School, 2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800 ( mtgreene@med.umich.edu ).
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