Admission diagnosis and proportion of patients catheterised in the historical controls and after the introduction of a more restrictive policy (study group)
| Admission diagnosis | Controls | Unacceptable, N | Study group | Unacceptable, N | p Value | ||
| Total, N | Catheter, N (%) | Total, N | Catheter, N (%) | ||||
| Fever | 132 | 35 (26.5) | 35 | 153 | 12 (7.8) | 12 | <0.001 |
| Stroke | 34 | 11 (32.4) | 11 | 40 | 8 (20.0) | 8 | 0.225 |
| Congestive heart failure | 106 | 30 (29.3) | 30 | 107 | 3 (2.8) | 3 | <0.001 |
| Sepsis/hypotension | 9 | 8 (88.9) | 0 | 14 | 13 (92.9) | 0 | 0.641* |
| COPD | 44 | 4 (11.4) | 4 | 91 | 5 (5.5) | 5 | 0.222 |
| Acute renal failure | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 | 6 | 1 (50.0) | 0 | 0.571* |
| Palliative care | 29 | 15 (51.7) | 0 | 25 | 3 (12.0) | 0 | 0.002 |
| Cellulitis/ulcer | 8 | 7 (87.5) | 0 | 17 | 4 (23.5) | 0 | 0.475* |
| Macroscopic hematuria | 5 | 1 (20.0) | 0 | 7 | 2 (28.6) | 0 | 0.634* |
| No listed criteria | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | |||
| Total | 690 | 121 (17.5) | 90 (12.0) | 882 | 58 (6.6) | 36 (4.1) | <0.001 |
All P values relate to the comparison between the proportion of catheterisations per indication, except for the total where the p value is for both the proportion of catheterisations and the proportion of unjustified catheterisations.
↵* Fisher's exact test.
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.