Evaluation of a Urinary Catheter with a Preconnected Closed Drainage Bag

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 72-76

  DeGroot Kosolcharoen, Jane ^a   Guse, Rhonda ^b   Jones, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIURIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0023953502     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/645788     Document Type: Article

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