Appropriateness of use of indwelling urinary tract catheters in hospitalized patients in Italy

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 279-281

  Raffaele, Gianluca ^a   Bianco, Aida ^a   Aiello, Maria ^a   Pavia, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY CATHETER; WARD;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 39449128010     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528814     Document Type: Article

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