Once-Daily Irrigation of Long-term Urethral Catheters With Normal Saline: Lack of Benefit

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 441-443

  Muncie, Herbert L ^a   Hoopes, John M ^a   Damron, Dorothy J ^a   Tenney, James H ^a   Warren, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIURIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA; URETHRA LAVAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIURIA; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IRRIGATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0024503626     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1989.00390020133028     Document Type: Article

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