Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections

State of the Art

Engineering out the Risk of Infection with Urinary Catheters

Dennis G. Maki*  and Paul A. Tambyah†

Author affiliations: *University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; †National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore

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Figure 4

Figure 4. . Meta-analysis of published prospective randomized trials of silver oxide and silver alloy-hydrogel catheters. Data suggest that silver-hydrogel catheters can substantially reduce the risk for CAUTI (42).

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