Careful indication of the indwelling urinary catheter: impact on catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates
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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
OBJECTIVES To study the incidence, risk factors, clinical outcomes and antibiotic costs of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in patients with indwelling urinary catheter for one week and longer MATERIAL AND METHOD Patients in neurology and neurosurgery wards in a teaching hospital were studied. Patients with UTI before catheterization and in whom the catheter was removed be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2047-2994
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-4-s1-p218