Impact of Sterilization Technique on Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection After Cystoscopy

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Urinary Tract Infections

Treatments: Procedure: sterile patient preparation for cystoscopy; Procedure: clean patient preparation for cystoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00177112

0412M65852

3519A

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to verify that the incidence rate of urinary tract infections after a routine outpatient cystoscopy is the same for non-sterile (clean) and sterile procedural techniques.

Enrollment: 275 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Patients undergoing routine outpatient flexible cystoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have had a urinary tract infection within 3 months prior to flexible cystoscopy
• Patients with an indwelling catheter

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)