Prevalence and appropriateness of urinary catheters in Japanese intensive care units: Results from a multicenter point prevalence study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages S127-S130

  Kuriyama, Akira ^a   Takada, Tadaaki ^b   Irie, Hiromasa ^a   Sakuraya, Masaaki ^c   Katayama, Kohta ^d   Kawakami, Daisuke ^e   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^f   Fowler, Karen E ^g   Tokuda, Yasuharu ^h   Saint, Sanjay ^g,i  

^a KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Urasoe General Hospital   (Japan)

^c JA Hiroshima General Hospital at Jigozen   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (Japan)

^f KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^h KYUSHU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection control; Patient safety; Prevalence; Urinary catheters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADULT; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; AGED; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; URINARY CATHETER;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JAPAN; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVALENCE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY CATHETERS;

EID: 85033463582     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix018     Document Type: Article

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