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Cranberry juice concentrate does not significantly decrease the incidence of acquired bacteriuria in female hip fracture patients receiving urine catheter: a double-blind randomized trial

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, January 2017
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Title
Cranberry juice concentrate does not significantly decrease the incidence of acquired bacteriuria in female hip fracture patients receiving urine catheter: a double-blind randomized trial
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Clinical Interventions in Aging, January 2017
DOI 10.2147/cia.s113597
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Anna-Karin Gunnarsson, Lena Gunningberg, Sune Larsson, Kenneth B Jonsson

Abstract

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication among patients with hip fractures. Receiving an indwelling urinary catheter is a risk factor for developing UTIs. Treatment of symptomatic UTIs with antibiotics is expensive and can result in the development of antimicrobial resistance. Cranberries are thought to prevent UTI. There is no previous research on this potential effect in patients with hip fracture who receive urinary catheters. The aim of this study is to investigate whether intake of cranberry juice concentrate pre-operatively decreases the incidence of postoperative UTIs in hip fracture patients that received a urinary catheter. This study employed a randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trial. Female patients, aged 60 years and older, with hip fracture (n=227) were randomized to receive cranberry or placebo capsules daily, from admission, until 5 days postoperatively. Urine cultures were obtained at admission, 5 and 14 days postoperatively. In addition, Euro Qual five Dimensions assessments were performed and patients were screened for UTI symptoms. In the intention-to-treat analysis, there was no difference between the groups in the proportion of patients with hospital-acquired postoperative positive urine cultures at any time point. When limiting the analysis to patients that ingested at least 80% of the prescribed capsules, 13 of 33 (39%) in the placebo group and 13 of 47 (28%) in the cranberry group (P=0.270) had a positive urine culture at 5 days postoperatively. However, this difference was not statistically significant (P=0.270). Cranberry concentrate does not seem to effectively prevent UTIs in female patients with hip fracture and indwelling urinary catheter.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 15%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Other 6 6%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 6%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 42 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 5%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 41 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2020.
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#1,575,585
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#171
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