Identifying key factors that affect care home catheterisation rates: changing practice through audit.

The article presents a study on the key factors that affect care home catherisation rates in Great Britain. The study aimed to audit the catheterisation rates in Gloucestershire care homes. It revealed that the overall prevalence of catheterisation was 8% and prevalence between care homes ranged from 0 to 47%. Seventy-three percent of those catheters identified were urethral and 27% were suprapublic.