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Removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults after shorter vs longer durations: Number of participants requiring recatheterisation

Removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults after… may leads to higher number of participants requiring recatheterisation compared with longer durations (low certainty).

What each review found

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Removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults after shorter vs longer durations
Number of participants requiring recatheterisation · adults with short‐term indwelling urethral catheters that need to be removed
Removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults after… may leads to higher number of participants requiring recatheterisation compared with longer durations (low certainty).
Strategies for the removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
RR 1.81 [1.35, 2.41]44 studies · 5870 participantsLow

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Strategies for the removal of short‐term indwelling urethral catheters in adults
2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot assessed

Studies behind the findings

None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.

How reviews are matched to this question

Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.