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Am J Infect Control
; 44(3): 346-8, 2016 Mar 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26717873
ABSTRACT
We compared the effectiveness of physician-initiated daily verbal reminders to primary care providers with nurse-initiated daily verbal reminders in decreasing the duration of inappropriate indwelling urinary catheter use in hospitalized patients. Catheter use duration was significantly decreased in the physician-initiated intervention group compared with the nurse-initiated intervention group (0.5 ± 0.8 vs 1.7 ± 2.7 days, respectively; P = .03).