Dynamic changes in the appropriateness of urinary catheter use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department

Fang-Wen Hu; Hsin-I Shih; Hsiang-Chin Hsu; Ching-Huey Chen; Chia-Ming Chang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193905

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Dynamic changes in the appropriateness of urinary catheter use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department

Fang-Wen Hu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang-Wen Hu, Ching-Huey Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: No.138, Tainan City, Taiwan.

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Hsin-I Shih ,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Current address: No.138, Tainan City, Taiwan.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Hsiang-Chin Hsu ,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – original draft

Current address: No.138, Tainan City, Taiwan.

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Ching-Huey Chen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang-Wen Hu, Ching-Huey Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Current address: No.1, Gueiren District, Tainan City, Taiwan

Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Chia-Ming Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: charming.tw@hotmail.com

Current address: No.138, Tainan City, Taiwan.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Dynamic changes in the appropriateness of urinary catheter use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department

Fang-Wen Hu,
Hsin-I Shih,
Hsiang-Chin Hsu,
Ching-Huey Chen,
Chia-Ming Chang

Published: March 22, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193905

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