title: Auditing urinary catheter care.
abstract: Urinary catheters are the main cause of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections among inpatients. Healthcare staff can reduce the risk of patients developing an infection by ensuring they give evidence-based care and by removing the catheter as soon as it is no longer necessary. An audit conducted in a Hampshire hospital demonstrated there was poor documented evidence that best practice was being carried out. Therefore a urinary catheter assessment and monitoring tool was designed to promote best practice and produce clear evidence that care had been provided.
authors.affiliation: Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester.
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dailly
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom; D014546:Urinary Catheterization