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Reducing unnecessary urethral catheter use in Japanese intensive care units: A multicenter interventional study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
Abstract
We conducted a preintervention–postintervention study to assess the effectiveness of a multimodal approach to reduce unnecessary urethral catheters in 5 Japanese intensive care units. After the intervention urethral catheter point prevalence decreased by 18%, from 79% preintervention to 61% postintervention, and catheter appropriateness increased by 28%, from 57% preintervention to 85% postintervention.
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