Assessing catheter-associated urinary tract infection

[...]a dilutive effect from attributing all infections occurring up to 6 weeks might still bias the analysis toward the null. [...]given that a large part of the study population was exposed for 2 days or less, the power calculation presented by the authors might not apply to this subset of the data...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 381; no. 9877; p. 1535
Main Authors Akre, Olof, Thulin, Helen, Bottai, Matteo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 04.05.2013
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage
Catheter-Related Infections - prevention & control
Catheters
Female
Humans
Infections
Internal Medicine
Male
Medical instruments
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Nitrofurazone - administration & dosage
Studies
Urinary Catheterization - adverse effects
Urinary Tract Infections - prevention & control
Urogenital system
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Summary:[...]a dilutive effect from attributing all infections occurring up to 6 weeks might still bias the analysis toward the null. [...]given that a large part of the study population was exposed for 2 days or less, the power calculation presented by the authors might not apply to this subset of the data.
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ISSN:0140-6736
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1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60972-1