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Inappropriate Management of Asymptomatic Patients With Positive Urine Cultures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Mismanagement of asymptomatic patients with positive urine cultures (referred to as asymptomatic bacteriuria [ASB] in the literature) promotes antimicrobial resistance and results in unnecessary antimicrobial-related adverse events and increased health care costs. METHODS: We conducted a...

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Autores principales: Flokas, Myrto Eleni, Andreatos, Nikolaos, Alevizakos, Michail, Kalbasi, Alireza, Onur, Pelin, Mylonakis, Eleftherios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5714225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx207