title: Comparing first and subsequent suprapubic catheter change: complications and costs.
abstract: Urologic and continence nursing advanced significantly during the 1990s. Today's health care environment emphasizes careful rationalizing of hospital-based resources. This trend is more or less responsible for the demise of medically managed suprapubic catheter (SPC) change. The results of this study indicate that first change of SPC, performed in the patient's home or outpatient clinic by appropriately skilled registered nurses, is a cost-effective practice with no increased risk of complication to the patient.
authors.affiliation: St. George Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Pamela J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Louey
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meade
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fairbrother
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000191:economics* / Q000451:nursing