The urinary catheter: 'a-voiding catastrophe'

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 148-149

  Patel, Hitendra R H ^a   Arya, Manit ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

AGED; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0035287765     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2001.62.3.1533     Document Type: Article

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