Society guideline links: Urinary catheters

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendation on duration of bladder catheterization after surgical repair of simple obstetric urinary fistula (2018)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't treat asymptomatic urinary tract infections in catheterized patients (updated 2021)

●Canadian Urological Association (CUA): Best practice report on catheter use (2020)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't place, or leave in place, urinary catheters without an acceptable indication (such as critical illness, obstruction, palliative care) (updated 2020)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't insert an indwelling urinary catheter or leave it in place without daily assessment (updated 2020)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't place or leave in place a urinary catheter without reassessment (updated 2020)

United States

●Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN): Catheterization of an ileal or colon conduit stoma – Best practice for clinicians (2012, updated 2018)

●Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (2009, updated 2017)

●WOCN: Care and management of patients with urinary catheters – A clinical resource guide (2016)

●American Urological Association (AUA): Catheter-associated urinary tract infections – Definitions and significance in the urologic patient (2014)

●Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals, update (2014)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): International clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults (ARCHIVED; published 2010)

●Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine (CSCM): Bladder management for adults with spinal cord injury – A clinical practice guideline for health-care providers (2006)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU): Guidelines on urological infections, update (2021)

●European Association of Urology Nurses (EAUN): Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care – Male external catheters in adults: Urinary catheter management – Condom catheter, urinary sheath, penile sheath (2016)

●EAUN: Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care – Catheterisation: Urethral intermittent in adults – Dilatation, urethral intermittent in adults (2013)

●EAUN: Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care – Catheterisation: Indwelling catheters in adults – Urethral and suprapubic (2012)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Medical technologies guidance on UroShield for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections (2022)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): Management of suspected bacterial lower urinary tract infection in adult women – A national clinical guideline (2020)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women – Management (2019)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary tract infection (catheter-associated) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2018)

●Department of Health (DH): epic3 – National evidence-based guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated infections in NHS hospitals in England (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't use urinary catheters to manage urinary incontinence unless all other appropriate options have proved to be ineffective or to prevent wound infection or skin breakdown (reviewed 2016)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Remove all invasive devices, such as intravascular lines and urinary catheters, as soon as possible (reviewed 2016)

●Australasian Society for Infectious Disease (ASID) Healthcare Infection Control Special Interest Group (HICSIG)/Australian Infection Control Association (AICA): Position statement on preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in patients (2011)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: About urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the elderly (2015, updated 2018)

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Two medical actions to be careful to prevent nosocomial infections (2016, updated 2017)