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Han2017 - Comparisson Transurethral Cath With Suprapubic Cath Related To Infection Rates
Han2017 - Comparisson Transurethral Cath With Suprapubic Cath Related To Infection Rates
PII: S0022-5347(17)77185-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2017.07.069
Reference: JURO 14879
Please cite this article as: Han CS, Kim S, Radadia KD, Zhao PT, Elsamra SE, Olweny EO, Weiss RE,
Comparison of urinary tract infection rates associated with transurethral catheterization, suprapubic tube
and clean intermittent catheterization in the postoperative setting: a network meta-analysis, The Journal
of Urology® (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2017.07.069.
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Christopher S. Han1,2, Sinae Kim3, Kushan D. Radadia1,2, Philip T. Zhao1,2, Sammy E.
Elsamra1,2, Ephrem O. Olweny1,2, and Robert E. Weiss1,2
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Rutgers–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Rutgers–Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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Rutgers–School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854
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Funding: None
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Corresponding Author:
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Kushan Radadia, MD
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MEB 584
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Phone: (610)-639-2002
kradadia@gmail.com
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Abstract:
Purpose
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elucidate the risks of urinary tract infection (UTI) associated with transurethral catheterization
(TUC), suprapubic tube (SPT) and intermittent catheterization (IC) in the postoperative setting.
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Materials and Methods
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PubMed, EMBASE and Google Scholar searches were performed for eligible RCTs from
January 1980 to July 2015 that included patients who had TUC, SPT, or IC at the time of surgery
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and catheterization lasting up to postoperative day 30. The primary outcome of comparison was
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rates of UTI via a network meta-analysis with random effects model using a package netmeta in
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Results
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Fourteen RCTs were included in the analysis (n=1,391 patients). IC and SPT showed no
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evidence of decreased UTI rates compared to TUC. SPT and IC had comparable UTI rates
duration of catheterization (DOC) data (n=928 patients), IC and SPT were associated with
significantly decreased risks of UTI compared to TUC when DOC > 5 days (OR=0.173, 95% CI
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Conclusions
TUC is not associated with increased UTI risks compared to SPT and IC if DOC is ≤ 5 days.
However, SPT or IC are associated with lower rates of UTI if longer term catheterization is
Introduction:
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) has received a great deal of attention
over the past few years. UTI is catheter-related in 80% of times accounting for up to 40% of
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hospital-acquired infection (1). Proper bladder drainage, however, remains a necessity and is a
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routine postoperative care in surgical patients due to high rates of urinary retention during this
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While the most common type of bladder drainage is a transurethral catheterization
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(TUC), suprapubic tube (SPT) and intermittent catheterization (IC) are alternative approaches.
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Each method has a unique rationale behind its utilization, though a paucity of evidence supports
each practice. SPT has been suggested to have lower rate of UTI compared to TUC (3). More
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significant adverse events associated with SPT along with its invasiveness, however, have
discouraged routine use of SPT (4). IC has also been suggested to have lower rates of bacteriuria,
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asymptomatic and symptomatic, compared to TUC in the postoperative settings (5). One study,
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however, has reported six-fold increase in the estimated costs of IC per patient, as compared to
that of TUC, for the first 48 hours after surgery questioning its cost-effectiveness (6). TUC is
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also simple and familiar to most hospital staff in the postoperative setting, therefore, has been the
most utilized method of bladder drainage (3). However, with conventional wisdom suggesting
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higher rates of UTI with TUC compared to the other approaches, it is often difficult to choose the
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best treatment option for the patients. We have therefore performed a systematic review and
network meta-analysis to elucidate the UTI rates between TUC, SPT and IC in the postoperative
Methods:
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PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar and the Cochrane Library searches were performed
identifying studies from January 1980 to July 2015 with keywords “suprapubic”, “transurethral”,
“intermittent”, “catheter” and “urinary tract infection.” Search results were further narrowed to
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patients who had TUC, SPT, or IC at the time of surgery and catheterization lasting only up to
postoperative day 30. The rest of the inclusion criteria includes: randomized clinical trials
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(RCT), patients undergoing elective surgery for benign or malignant conditions and at least one
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outcome measure reported. No other restrictions were placed on the searches. Two authors
reviewed the potentially relevant articles independently. The primary outcome of comparison
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was the rates of UTI. UTI was defined as a urine culture of >105 colonies/mL urine with or
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without symptoms. A subgroup analysis based on the duration of catheterization (DOC) was also
There are no published RCT comparing all three types of catheterization. As standard
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meta-analyses could not utilize the information about a treatment which was not directly
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compared within a study, network meta-analysis with random effects model was performed
using a package netmeta in R 3.2. Network meta-analysis, a novel concept of meta-analysis, aims
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to combine information from all randomized comparisons among a set of treatments for a given
condition. Furthermore, it allows to rank the treatments in order to identify the best and/or worst
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treatment among them. Cochran’s Q test and I2 index were used to test for the study
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heterogeneity. The risk of bias within trials was evaluated using the Jadad score by assessing the
Results:
Literature search identified 14 RCT applicable to our search criteria with a total of 1,391
patients (Figure 1). Four, three, and seven studies were identified comparing IC versus TUC,
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SPT versus IC, and TUC versus SPT, respectively, after orthopedic, urogynecologic,
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gynecologic, and general surgery procedures. Jadad score was calculated with a mean score of
2.85 (Table 1). Basic characteristics of patients are described in Table 2. Each study was
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reviewed for mean DOC and UTI rate.
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IC and SPT showed no evidence of decreased UTI rates compared to TUC (OR=0.565,
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95% CI 0.252-1.267 and OR=0.51, 95% CI 0.255-1.023, respectively) (Table 3). IC and SPT
also showed no significant differences in their risks of UTI (OR=1.107, 95% CI 0.479-2.555).
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Using TUC as a reference, a forest plot was generated (Figure 2). The catheterization modality
was ranked by the likelihood of developing a postoperative UTI using a P-scores which are
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based solely on point estimates and standard errors of the network estimate. Ranking showed
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A subgroup analysis based on mean DOC was then performed. Group 1 included those
with mean DOC of five days or less whereas Group 2 included those with mean DOC of longer
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than five days. A total number of 10 studies were identified with mean DOC records (Table 4).
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No statistically significant differences in UTI rates were seen between TUC, SPT and IC when
mean DOC was five days or less (OR=1.021, 95% CI 0.346-3.014 for IC versus TUC,
OR=1.537, 95% CI 0.34-6.943 for SPT versus TUC, and OR=0.664, 95% CI 0.145-3.037 for IC
versus SPT) (Table 5). The ranking showed that TUC was associated with the lowest risk of UTI
in Group 1, but the differences did not meet statistical significance. With mean DOC longer than
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five days, IC and SPT were associated with significantly decreased risks of UTI compared to
TUC (OR=0.173, 95% CI 0.073-0.412 and OR=0.142, 95% CI 0.073-0.276, respectively). Using
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Early reviews and meta-analyses have reported higher infection rates with TUC
compared to SPT and/or IC in the surgical population with short-term bladder drainage (≤ 14
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days) (3). This population includes the general surgical, orthopedic, gynecological, and
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urological patients. The recently updated 2015 Cochran review for the hospitalized adults,
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however, concludes that the current evidences are insufficient to draw any conclusion on the
comparative risks of symptomatic UTI associated with TUC, SPT and IC (20). This indicates
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that the evidence is still lacking to formulate a general consensus on this topic. Interestingly, SPT
is found to be associated with reduced risk of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in this review.
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The clinical significance of this reduced risk of ASB, however, is unclear. As a general
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consensus, recommendations are against the treatment of ASB due to its low clinical significance
and increased risk of the development of resistant bacterial strains (21,22). The confusion
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between the symptomatic UTI and ASB, however, is still prevalent in the community.
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This confusion is largely due to the variations in the current UTI criteria. Although
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generally similar, UTI criteria vary by organizations, medical specialties and even within
hospitals. The criteria of a postoperative UTI by the National Surgical Quality Improvement
Program (NSQIP), one of the largest national program measuring the surgical outcomes, include
one of the symptoms (fever >38ºC, urgency, frequency, dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness) and
urine culture of >105 colonies/mL urine (with no more than two species of organisms) (23).
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However, the NSQIP, American Urological Association (AUA), EAU and National Healthcare
Safety Network (NHSN), the CDC’s patient safety surveillance system, all have variations in
both the method of diagnosis and definition of UTI (21,22). To further compound the problem,
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the CAUTI data often do not exclude those who were treated for urinary symptoms, but
subsequently found to have negative urine cultures (22). CAUTI definitions also do not
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distinguish between the urinary symptoms secondary to the bladder irritation from the
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catheterization itself and infection. Furthermore, postoperative CAUTI is a unique entity where
the indication and/or duration of the catheterization is different from other hospitalized patients
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and prophylactic antibiotic use may have altered the culture data and/or UTI symptomatology.
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The recent change in the definition of CAUTI by NHSN in 2009 has also contributed to
this confusion. The main change was the removal of ASB from its criteria (24). As a result, care
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should be taken when pooling the pre-change data for an analysis with the post-change data as
some of the pre-change studies include both UTI and ASB patients. Nonetheless, meta-analysis
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is still the preferred method in answering this longstanding controversy on postoperative CAUTI
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as performing an RCT to compare all three modalities of bladder drainage is difficult, if not
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impossible, due to the large number of patient needed with the innate heterogeneity of the
surgical population. As it is nearly impossible to sort out the included patients with ASB in some
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of the pre-change studies, some of the patients included in our analysis have ASB limiting the
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The inclusion of pre-change data into analysis, however, warrants a discussion as the rate
of treatment of ASB has not declined significantly in tertiary care hospitals (25). Although a
significant decline in CAUTI has been seen since the NHSH definition change, likely due to the
removal of ASB from its criteria, the above finding suggest that the definition change itself does
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not affect the clinical practice (24). By including RCTs with varying definitions of UTI, which
lead to actual treatments, attempts can be made to capture the “true” rate of UTI that leads to an
actual treatment in the current clinical practice. Although such broad inclusion is certainly a
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limitation, it may also allow increased generalizability of the data. It should be clear, however,
that the antibiotic treatment is only warrantied in those with symptomatic bacteriuria. The
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postoperative patient population is also unique in that many of them have baseline and/or
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transient bladder dysfunction from the operation itself that, along with the catheter-related
irritative symptoms, interfere with the accurate diagnosis of UTI. For this reason, many of the
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RCTs have incorporated multiple precatheter and postcatheter cultures for improved accuracy. In
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order to further maximize the statistical power, a network-analysis, where multiple treatments
can be compared using both direct comparisons of intervention within RCT as well as indirect
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comparisons across trials based on a common comparator, has been performed (26).
Contrary to the prior RCTs and/or meta-analyses, our results demonstrated that TUC is
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not associated with increased risk of UTI compared to SPT and IC. However, a difference was
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delineated during the subgroup analysis based on the DOC of five days. DOC ≤ five days
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represented an immediate postoperative bladder drainage and DOC > five days represented
prolonged bladder drainage possibly due to a failure to void and/or the nature of the surgery.
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Five days is chosen based off various surgical and gynecological literatures (28, 29). Studies
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reported average DOC of approximately five days, and UTI rates peak at 6th day of
catheterization. These studies also did not remove catheters early in the postoperative setting due
RCTs evaluated in this trial only reported mean DOC of their cohorts. While absolute
DOC was not available, subgroup analysis was performed with given values. TUC is shown to
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be associated with different risk profiles based on mean DOC when compared to SPT and IC. If
mean DOC ≤ five days, TUC is still found to have similar risk of UTI compared to SPT and IC.
In fact, TUC was ranked the lowest with regard to the risk of UTI in this group, though not
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statistically significant. This result could prevent unnecessary initiation of SPT or IC, which
could potentially increase the complications and/or cost, when mean DOC is expected to be five
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days or less.
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If mean DOC > five days, TUC is shown to be associated with higher risk of UTI. This
result is in congruence with the previous studies and suggests that the method of postoperative
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bladder drainage should be tailored in regards to the expected DOC to reduce the postoperative
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CAUTI. Therefore, IC or SPT can be the preferred means of bladder drainage in this group. SPT
lower re-catheterization rates are seen with SPT likely due to the trial of spontaneous void that
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could be given in SPT without having to remove the catheter (3). The placement of SPT in the
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operating room with the patient under anesthesia is relatively easy and ensures safe insertion as
well. IC can be taught to the patient and/or the caregiver prior to discharge in these settings and
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potentially minimize the increased cost which are mainly associated with the increased nursing
care (6).
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Nonetheless, our study has some limitations. As discussed above, the varying definitions
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of postoperative UTI in our study may limit its clinical applicability. However, its broad
inclusion criteria more accurately represent the current clinical practice patterns for varying
definitions of UTI. Secondly, analysis of this kind is often associated with statistical
heterogeneity. Even with the high quality RCTs (most studies have Jadad score of 3 or higher)
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included in the analysis, the significant differences among the trials including the types of
surgeries, gender and DOC may make such pooling of data less ideal. Nevertheless, surgical
populations are inherently heterogeneous with different levels of complexities and types of
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operations. This is seen by the reported Q statistic implying that the individual studies do not
provide consistent result. However, as Q statistic has low power when the number of studies are
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low, I2, a more intuitive measure of inconsistency, is also calculated and showed that 69% of
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variability may be due to the between-study variation. To further address this, random-effects
model was used as recommended for the meta-analysis of surgical trials (29). Such
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heterogeneity, therefore, could further support the generalizability of this data. However, a
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relatively low proportion of male patients included in our analysis may limit generalization of
our data. The large female population in our cohort may overestimate the actual UTI as females
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are more likely to experience a UTI than males due to anatomic differences (30). To our
knowledge, our study is the first network meta-analysis comparing all three types of
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, TUC is not associated with increased UTI risks
compared to SPT and IC if duration of catheterization is less than five days. SPT or IC are
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associated with lower rates of UTI if longer term catheterization is expected in postoperative
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Figure 3: Forest Plot Comparing the Catheterization Types Based on the Duration of Catheterization.
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et al. (7) 2011 IC vs TUC POP Repair 87 been catheterized 1
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Brand et al. Patients who received
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(8) 2001 IC vs TUC THA/TKA 99 THA/TKA 3
Patients needing
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Dobbs et hysterectomy for non-
al. (9) 1997 IC vs TUC TAH 95 oncologic reasons 4
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Dixon et al. Patients with POP/stress
(10) 2010 SPT vs IC POP Repair 72 incontinence 3
Patients needing
Naik et al. Radical hysterectomy for oncologic
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hepatobiliary surgery,
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Baan et al. Elective
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Patients needing
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arthroplasty; TKA: Total knee arthroplasty; TAH: Total abdominal hysterectomy.
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Table 2: Urinary Tract Infection Rate and Duration of Catheterization in Each Study.
Average Length of
Catheterization Therapy UTI Rate
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(8) IC vs TUC 99 (27:72) 68 46 53 11 3
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(9) IC vs TUC 95 (0:95) 44 2.04 2.51 6 14
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Dixon et al.
(10) SPT vs IC 72 (0:72) N/A 5 4 10 6
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Jannelli et al.
(11) SPT vs IC 210 (0:210) 55 5.2 5.3 26 30
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(15) TUC vs SPT 50 (50:0) 66 7.5 7.2 2 1
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IC vs. SPT 1.107 [0.479, 2.555]
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I2 69%
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Q 38.69
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IC: intermittent catheterization; TUC: transurethral catheterization; SPT: Suprapubic tube catheterization;
OR: Odds ratio; C.I.: Confidence interval; Q: Cochran’s Q test; I2: I2 Index
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Knight (1996); IC vs. (2.34, 2.13) days Ratnaval (1996); (7.2, 7.5) days
TUC SPT vs. TUC
Dixon (2010); IC vs. (4, 5) days Nwabineli (1993); (13.1, 16.5) days
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SPT SPT vs. TUC
Schiotz (1989); SPT (4.9, 3.3) days Harms (1985); SPT (5.2, 7.35) days
vs. TUC vs. TUC
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DOC: Duration of catheterization; IC: intermittent catheterization; TUC: transurethral catheterization;
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IC vs. SPT 0.664 [0.145, 3.037] IC vs. SPT 1.218 [0.697, 2.126]
Variance 0.737 Variance <0.0001
between-studies between-studies
I2 69.4% I2 0%
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Ranking TUC, IC, SPT Ranking SPT, IC, TUC
DOC: Duration of catheterization; IC: intermittent catheterization; TUC: transurethral catheterization;
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Abbreviations
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IC: intermittent catheterization
TUC: transurethral catheterization
SPT: suprapubic tube catheterization
POP: pelvic organ prolapsed
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SUI: Stress urinary incontinence
THA: Total hip arthroplasty
TKA: Total knee arthroplasty
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TAH: Total abdominal hysterectomy
Q: Cochran’s Q test
I2: I2 Index
OR: Odds ratio
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