Study: Standard Measures of Urinary Catheter Days Are Unreliable

Standard measures of urinary catheter days — the number of hospital patients with urinary catheters each day — may not be reliable, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

 

Researchers examined urinary catheter use in two Veterans Affairs hospitals in Texas from July 2010 through June 2011.

 

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