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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN75198618
ISRCTN75198618
Completed
Not Applicable

Types of urethral catheter for reducing symptomatic urinary tract infections in hospitalised adults requiring short-term catheterisation: a randomised controlled trial

niversity of Aberdeen (UK)0 sites5,700 target enrollmentJanuary 26, 2007

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
rinary tract infections
Sponsor
niversity of Aberdeen (UK)
Enrollment
5700
Status
Completed
Last Updated
9 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
January 26, 2007
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
9 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity of Aberdeen (UK)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Adult patients (both males and females, more than or equal to 16 years of age)
  • 2\. Requiring urethral catheterisation (expected to be required for a maximum of two weeks)
  • 3\. Pre\-selected units with a high volume of short\-term catheterisation

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Patients for whom urinary catheterisation is expected to be long\-term (i.e. more than 14 days)
  • 2\. Urological intervention or instrumentation within preceding seven days (e.g. catheterisation, cystoscopy, prostatic biopsy and nephrostomy insertion)
  • 3\. Non\-urethral catheterisation (e.g. suprapubic catheterisation)
  • 4\. Known allergy to any of the following: latex, silver salts, hydrogel, silicone or nitrofurazone

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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