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CompletedNCT00672503Updated Oct 12, 2011

Decreasing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

An observational study in Urinary Tract Infections, sponsored by Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 1 Day to 17 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-10-12.

Sponsored by Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Case-control
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
321
Ages
1 Day to 17 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to identify risk factors associated with indwelling urinary catheters, as well as to assess the nurses' knowledge and adherence to hospital policies. The study will also include a very extensive literature search in an attempt to create a national standard or guideline.

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Conditions studied

  • Urinary Tract Infections

Keywords

  • indwelling urinary catheters
  • urinary tract infections
  • foley-catheter related infections
  • hospital acquired CA-UTI
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In context

Infections

6,687 studies on the registry are indexed under Infections; 807 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 321 is above the median of 240 across 2,136 observational studies indexed under Infections.

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Lead sponsor

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City is the lead sponsor of 209 studies on the registry; 22 are open to participants now.

Of its 18 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 14 (78%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
1 Day to 17 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

  1. Patients who acquired a CA-UTI while hospitalized in the PICU between 2004-2007.
  2. Patients who had an indwelling urinary catheter while hospitalized in the PICU between 2004-2007 but did not acquire a CA-UTI.
  3. Nurses currently employed in the PICU at Children's Mercy Hospital.
  4. All Patient's who acquired a CA-UTI during 2009

Inclusion criteria

  1. Medical records of 67 patients 0 to 17 years of age diagnosed with a catheter associated urinary tract infection (defined by CDC) acquired during a PICU hospitalization.
  2. Medical records of 67 patients 0 to 17 years of age who had an indwelling urinary catheter during a PICU hospitalization without a catheter associated urinary tract infection.
  3. Nurses employed at Children's Mercy Hospital in the PICU.
  4. Patient's who acquired a CA-UTI during 2009 and was adjudicated by infection control.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients

  1. Patients with community acquired urinary tract infections
  2. Patients 18 years and older cared for in the PICU.
  3. Patients with catheter associated urinary tract infections hospitalized outside the PICU at Children's Mercy Hospital.
  4. Patients with UTI not related to catheterization

Nurses

  1. Nurses floated to the PICU who are not permanent staff members (ICN nurse, float pool staff, travelers)
  2. Nurses on the research team
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Study design

Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
321 participants (actual)

Groups and cohorts

  • 1

    Patients who acquired a CA-UTI in the PICU between 2004-2007.

  • 2

    Patients who did not acquire a CA-UTI while hospitalized in the PICU but had an indwelling urinary catheter between 2004-2007.

  • A

    Nurses currently employed in the PICU at Children's Mercy Hospital.

  • a

    Root Cause Analysis on all patients who acquired a CA-UTI during 2009.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Identification of risk factors associated with indwelling urinary catheters.

    Time frame: 2004-2007

Secondary outcomes

  1. Identification of nurses' knowledge of insertion, irrigation, care and maintenance of indwelling urinary catheters.

    Time frame: 2008

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Study locations

1 site
  • Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
    Kansas City, Missouri 64108, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 12, 2011, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00672503
Lead sponsor
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Responsible party
Tangela Welch (RN, PICU Clinical Research Coordinator, Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 6, 2008
Start date
May 2008
Primary completion
Oct 2011
Completion
Oct 2011
Last update
Oct 12, 2011

Study contacts

Tangela M Welch, ADN, BBA
principal investigator · Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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