Dynamic changes in the appropriateness of urinary catheter use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate incidence, rationales, related factors and outcomes for changing from appropriate catheter placement to inappropriate use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department.

Methods

A secondary analysis was adopted from a longitudinal study that was designed to follow the lifecycle of the urinary catheter among hospitalized older patients. Patients aged 65 and older with a urinary catheter that had been placed in the emergency department were included. Demographic factors, present health conditions, conditional factors of catheter placement, and rationales for daily urinary catheter use were collected from the original data. Inappropriate urinary catheter days were evaluated as an outcome.

Results

Appropriate urinary catheters were

SUBMITTER: Hu FW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5863961 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature