Clinician Testing and Treatment Thresholds for Management of Urinary Tract Infection

Greater understanding of clinical decision thresholds may improve inappropriate testing and treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI). We used a survey of clinicians to examine UTI decision thresholds. Although overestimates of UTI occurred, testing and treatment thresholds were generally rational,...

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Autores principales: Harris, Andrea, Pineles, Lisa, Baghdadi, Jonathan D, Magder, Larry, Dhaliwal, Gurpreet, Korenstein, Deborah, Harris, Anthony D, Morgan, Daniel J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10500043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37720701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad455
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author Harris, Andrea
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Baghdadi, Jonathan D
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description Greater understanding of clinical decision thresholds may improve inappropriate testing and treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI). We used a survey of clinicians to examine UTI decision thresholds. Although overestimates of UTI occurred, testing and treatment thresholds were generally rational, were lower than previously reported, and differed by type of clinician.
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spelling pubmed-105000432023-09-15 Clinician Testing and Treatment Thresholds for Management of Urinary Tract Infection Harris, Andrea Pineles, Lisa Baghdadi, Jonathan D Magder, Larry Dhaliwal, Gurpreet Korenstein, Deborah Harris, Anthony D Morgan, Daniel J Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Greater understanding of clinical decision thresholds may improve inappropriate testing and treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI). We used a survey of clinicians to examine UTI decision thresholds. Although overestimates of UTI occurred, testing and treatment thresholds were generally rational, were lower than previously reported, and differed by type of clinician. Oxford University Press 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10500043/ /pubmed/37720701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad455 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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