JMIR Medical InformaticsBackgroundInappropriate testing of urine cultures can lead to overuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, Clostridioides difficile ObjectiveWe assessed the implementation of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool in diagnostic ...
Ahlam Alghamdi +13 more
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Low Diagnostic Yield of Repeating a Urine Culture in the Inpatient Setting [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Duplicative laboratory testing is prevalent in health care. Prior research surrounding repeat urine cultures showed that when a negative index culture is repeated within 48 hours, less than 5% of repeat urine cultures show a new bacteriuria ...
Eugenia Miranti +7 more
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Rate and Predictors of Urine Culture Positivity Following Single-Dose Antibiotic Administration: a Prospective Single-Center Study [PDF]
Infectious Diseases and TherapyIntroduction International guidelines advocate obtaining urine cultures prior to antibiotic administration in hospitalized patients with suspected urinary tract infection (UTI). However, adherence remains suboptimal. The aim of this study was to evaluate
Neta Sror +8 more
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Exploring Social Vulnerability and Urine Culture Studies in Hospitalized Adult Patients in a Single Center, Northern California, 2023 [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Racial and ethnic disparities have been demonstrated across a range of healthcare outcomes and services, including infectious disease burden.
Mindy Sampson +4 more
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Optimizing Urine Culture Utilization in the Emergency Department, a Study from South India [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Inappropriate urine culture can lead to unnecessary antibiotic use, antimicrobial resistance, increased healthcare costs, and resource strain.
Krishna Suresh +4 more
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Moving Beyond the Reflex: Effect of a Clinical Decision Support Tool on Urine Culture Ordering Practices [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Interventions targeting urine culture stewardship can improve diagnostic accuracy for urinary tract infections (UTI) and decrease inappropriate antibiotic treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria.
Elizabeth Kim +7 more
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Association Between Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Urine Culture [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency MedicineIntroduction: Bacterial urinary tract infections (UTI) and some sexually transmitted infections (STI) can have overlapping signs and symptoms or nonspecific findings, such as pyuria on urinalysis.
Johnathan M. Sheele +2 more
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Temporal trends in urine-culture rates in the US acute-care hospitals, 2017–2020
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022 Background: Previously, we reported decreasing postadmission urine-culture rates in hospitalized patients between 2012 and 2017, indicating a possible decrease in hospital-onset urinary tract infections or changes in diagnostic practices in acute-care ...
Sophia Kazakova +7 more
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Journal of Urological Surgery, 2022 Objective:There is no correlation between the preoperative bladder urine culture (PBUC) sensitivity test and the results of the renal pelvic urine culture (RPUC) test.Materials and Methods:A total of 129 patients who underwent f-URS included the study ...
Fatih Gökalp +6 more
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Urinary Cytology: Potential Role in Canine Urinary Tract Infections
Veterinary Sciences, 2022 The diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) requires a concomitant evaluation of clinical signs and urine culture, which is of fundamental to start an appropriate antibiotic treatment.
Ilaria Lippi +5 more
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