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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Nurs. 2017 Mar 14;26(17-18):2558–2571. doi: 10.1111/jocn.13626

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics and rates for primary catheter problems over a 12 month period

Primary catheter problems
(# events)
Percentage reporting problem* Mean (SE) Rate/1000 catheter days
CAUTI (268) 57% 0.27 (0.017) 4.49
Blockage (507) 34% 0.51 (0.114)** 8.54
Dislodgement (139) 28% 0.14 (0.019) 2.33
*

Indicates the percentage of study participants who had this happen at any time during the previous 12 months, rounded to nearest percent. This does not include baseline data.

**

Zero-inflated count variable: 87% of responses were zero. Among non-zero responses bi-monthly, the range was 1 to 60, mode and median=1, mean=3.96 (SE: 0.81), 5% trimmed mean=2.28 (SE: 0.34).