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Urinary catheter

Known as: Catheter, Urinary, catheters urine, bladder catheters 
Catheters inserted into the URINARY BLADDER or kidney for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
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Review
2014
Review
2014
Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review
Background Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults
Issues related to asymptomatic bacteriuria and cystitis in other circumstances, and the indications for placement, methods of… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Systematic Review: Antimicrobial Urinary Catheters To Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Hospitalized Patients
Key Summary Points Randomized or quasi-randomized clinical trials of antimicrobial urinary catheters currently marketed in the… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Development and initial validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I).
BACKGROUND There is a need for a measure of fear of falling that assesses both easy and difficult physical activities and social… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infection
Indwelling urinary catheters are used frequently in older populations. For either short- or long-term catheters, the infection… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
The etiology of urinary tract infection: traditional and emerging pathogens.
  • A. Ronald
  • The American journal of medicine
  • 2002
  • Corpus ID: 13113431
Review
2001
Review
2001
Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection. Each year, more than 1 million… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Precipitating factors for delirium in hospitalized elderly persons. Predictive model and interrelationship with baseline vulnerability.
OBJECTIVES To prospectively develop and validate a predictive model for delirium based on precipitating factors during… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Tobramycin resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells growing as a biofilm on urinary catheter material
When disks of urinary catheter material were exposed to the flow of artificial urine containing cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa… 
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