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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Inappropriate urine culture ordering in hospitalized patients with indwelling urinary catheters contributes to unnecessary antibiotic exposure and increased risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI).
Alexia El Khoury +7 more
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Predicting urine culture results in candidates for lithotripsy
Current Urology, 2023 . Background. Urological guidelines assert that “urine culture should be obtained” before surgical management of ureteral or kidney stones. Thus, many surgeries are delayed by 1–3 days until the results of urine culture are available.
Ofer N. Gofrit +3 more
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RNA Sequencing Resolves Cryptic Pathogenic Variants in Mitochondrial Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Mitochondrial diseases are the most common inherited metabolic disorders, characterized by pronounced clinical and genetic heterogeneity that complicates molecular diagnosis. Although DNA‐based sequencing approaches have become standard in genetic testing, up to half of patients remain without a definitive diagnosis.
Zhimei Liu +21 more
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Evaluation of Urine Dipstick For Leukocyte Esterase Test For Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection
Diyala Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background:General urine examination (GUE) and urine culture are the most requested tests by clinicians for patients with symptoms suggestive of urinary tract infections (UTI). However, they are laborious methods.
Shaima'a Rahem Al-Salihy
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Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019 Background: Tuberculosis is a common cause of mortality and morbidity among people living with HIV/AIDS. Despite the increased prognosis of tuberculosis among HIV infected patients, diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) smear microscopy has a low ...
Alemu Chemeda +4 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objective: To assess the relevance of urine test (UT), urine culture (UC) and stone culture (SC) for postoperative infections and to investigate the optimal perioperative antibiotic treatment strategy in association with percutaneous nephrolithotomy ...
Tao Zeng +11 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective A patient‐centered approach for chronic disease management, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), aligns treatment with patients’ values and preferences, leading to improved outcomes. This paper summarizes how patient experiences, perspectives, and priorities informed the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2024 Lupus Nephritis (LN)
Shivani Garg +20 more
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Changing the use of isolated urine-culture testing with diagnostic testing stewardship
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022 Background: Urine testing is one of the more frequently ordered diagnostic tests among hospitalized patients. Many hospitals have implemented urinalysis with reflex culture (UARC) as a method of diagnostic testing stewardship to guide appropriate use of ...
Jessica Penney +4 more
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Novel urine biomarkers to distinguish UTI from culture-negative pyuria
, 2022 BACKGROUND: Emergency departments (EDs) often rely on urinalysis (UA) to rapidly identify urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children. However, the suboptimal test characteristics of UA can lead to false-positive results.
Schwaderer, Andrew L +5 more
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