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245. Elimination of Routine Urinalysis Before Elective Orthopedic Surgery Reduces Antibiotic Utilization Without Impacting Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection or Surgical Site Infection Rates
BACKGROUND: Routine preoperative urinalysis testing has been common practice for the surgical orthopedic population for decades regardless of the presence of symptoms. Studies demonstrate low concordance between bacteria cultured from the surgical wound and those cultured in the urine. In addition,...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255075/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.256 |