Incidents associated with indwelling urinary catheter in hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional study

Abstract

Aims: to map the occurrence of incidents associated with the use of indwelling urinary catheter in hospitalized patients in the medical and surgical clinic of a university hospital; to analyze the findings regarding the best practices applied to the safe management of the indwelling urinary catheter; to discuss strategies for improvements in maintenance and monitoring of safe care for patients using a indwelling urinary catheter. Method: This is an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study carried out in a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro, with patients hospitalized in medical and surgical clinics using an indwelling urinary catheter. The study will consist of monitoring the occurrence of incidents between the first 24 hours of catheter installation and up to a maximum of 30 days. Data will be processed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 22.0 and the main statistical tests used will be chi-square, Fisher's Exact, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk.