Study: Standard Measures of Urinary Catheter Days Are Unreliable

Standard measures of urinary catheter days — the number of hospital patients with urinary catheters each day — may not be reliable, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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Researchers examined urinary catheter use in two Veterans Affairs hospitals in Texas from July 2010 through June 2011.

 

Click here to read the full story on urinary cather day measures in Becker’s ASC Review.

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