Results showed a decrease in both types of infections

decrease in both types of infections. A weakness of the study is that there was only a slight decrease in
the infection rates. A strength is that it compared the rates for a 12 months.
Article 6: This article was a systematic review on 13 different articles, which most were quantitative
studies. According to Andrade & Fernandes (2015), “The structure of this systematic review on literature
was based on the CAUTI thematic, elaborating the initial question, defining eligibility criteria, selecting
article samples and further analysis and results discussion.” Results showed that an indwelling catheter
should be removed as soon as it is not necessary any longer to reduce CAUTI rates. A strength is that the
studies were quantitative and although some studies had more participants than others, results were
similar. A weakness is that the studies were conducted as early as 2007.
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