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Use of Indwelling Urinary Tract Catheters in Swedish Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lars G. Burman ,
Birgitta Fryklund  and
Bertil Nyström
Lars G. Burman*
Affiliation:
National Bacteriological Laboratory and the Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Birgitta Fryklund
Affiliation:
National Bacteriological Laboratory and the Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Bertil Nyström
Affiliation:
National Bacteriological Laboratory and the Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
*
National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

In a survey of 67,774 patient days in 27 Swedish acute care hospitals, an indwelling urinary tract catheter (IUTC) was in place during 12% of patient days. There were marked differences between services (from 2% in rheumatology to 49% in urology), but also between hospitals for the same type of service (general surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, orthopaedic surgery) concerning proportion IUTC days, average duration of catheterization and the indications for IUTC use. The great local variation in IUTC usage for a particular service was usually not correlated with type of hospital (district, county, or regional/teaching), ie, with the mix of patients studied. We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards. This condition would imply a considerable potential for reducing the incidences of urinary tract infection and bacteremia and thus, mortality among hospitalized patients in Sweden.

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Original Articles
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 12 , December 1987 , pp. 507 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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