Physician-initiated daily verbal reminders decrease the duration of indwelling urinary catheter use compared with nurse-initiated reminders.

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Physician-initiated daily verbal reminders decrease the duration of indwelling urinary catheter use compared with nurse-initiated reminders.

Am J Infect Control. 2015 Dec 21;

Authors: Felix L, Smith BA, Santos E, Gabasan A, Dzenkevych O, Kourouni I, Klein RS

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).

PMID: 26717873 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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