Long-term urethral catheterisation after spinal injury
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Restriction of long-term indwelling urethral catheterisation in the elderly.
Eighty-nine (16%) of 543 patients admitted to a chronic care centre in 1983 had an indwelling urethral catheter. Of the 89, 51 patients (57%) received the catheter in a general hospital, 4 (5%) at home and 34 (38%) in the centre. More than half of the catheters that were inserted in the hospital could be removed within 4 weeks of admission to the centre, implying that a more restricted use of i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1968
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1968.4