Stop orders to reduce inappropriate urinary catheterization in hospitalized patients: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitalized patients frequently have urinary catheters inserted for inappropriate reasons. This can lead to urinary tract infections and other complications.

Objective

To assess whether stop orders for indwelling urinary catheters reduces the duration of inappropriate urinary catheterization and the incidence of urinary tract infections.

Design

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in three tertiary-care hospitals in Ontario, Canada. Patients with indwelling urinary catheters were randomized to prewritten orders for the removal of urinary catheters if specified criteria were not present or to usual care.

Participants

Six hundred ninety-two hospitalized patients admitted to hospital with indwelling urinary catheters inserted for < or = 48 h.

SUBMITTER: Loeb M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2517898 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature