Urinary Tract Infections Using Indwelling Urethral Catheters

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Urinary Tract Infections Using Indwelling Urethral Catheters
Systematic Review
A systematic review is a scientific approach that looks at different research studies and their results. The results of the different studies are combined so that they may be studied more efficiently by researchers (Nieswiadomy, 2012, p. 279). Systematic reviews are important to evidence based practices because they allow people in the medical field to practice safely on patients. Evidence base practices that are reviewed systematically decreases the risk of infections in patients and in the health care settings.
Titles Found -1st Search
The first five searches that one would come across when looking up urethral catheters at the Cochrane library are as follows:
• Strategies for the removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults (Griffiths & Fernandez ,2009).
• Types of urethral catheters for management of short‐term voiding problems in hospitalized adults (Schumm & Lam, 2010).
• Urinary catheter policies for long‐term bladder drainage (Niël‐Weise, Broek & Silva, 2012).
• Urinary catheter policies for short‐term bladder drainage in adults (Niël-Weise & Van den Broek 2010).
• Types of indwelling urinary catheters for long‐term bladder drainage in adults (Patrick, Beutner, & Langer 2012).

Systemic Review Found- 2nd search

The PICO that I will be using is adults who undergo short-term suprapubic catheterization have a decreased occurrence of urinary tract infections opposed to those with indwelling urethral catheters.
The systematic review that I have chosen to do my PICO question titled Urinary Catheter Policies for short-term Bladder Drainage in Adults (Review)
Summary of the Systematic Review
Niel-Weise and Van den Broek (200...

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Niël‐Weise, Broek & Silva, (2012). Urinary catheter policies for long‐term bladder drainage.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 8. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004201.pub3
Niël-Weise B, Van den Broek P. (2010).Urinary catheter policies for short-term bladder drainage in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3. doi: 10.1002/14651858.C.
D004203.pub2
Niel- Weise &Van den Broek. (2009). Urinary catheter policies for short-term bladder drainage in adults. The Cochrane Collaboration, 1, 1-10 doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004203.pub2.
Nieswiadomy, R. M. ( 2012). Foundations of nursing research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Schumm, K & Lam, T (2010). Types of urethral catheters for management of short- term voiding problems in hospitalized adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 11. doi:
10.1002/14651858.CD004013.pub3.

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