Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship

Mixed flora in urine cultures usually occur due to preanalytic contamination. In our outpatient urology clinic, we detected a high prevalence of mixed flora (46.2%), which was associated with female sex and older age. Patient education did not influence the rate of mixed flora. Future efforts should...

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Autores principales: Whelan, Patrick S., Nelson, Alicia, Kim, Christopher J., Tabib, Christian, Preminger, Glenn M., Turner, Nicholas A., Lipkin, Michael, Advani, Sonali D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9016366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35445218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.260
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author Whelan, Patrick S.
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Kim, Christopher J.
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Advani, Sonali D.
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Preminger, Glenn M.
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description Mixed flora in urine cultures usually occur due to preanalytic contamination. In our outpatient urology clinic, we detected a high prevalence of mixed flora (46.2%), which was associated with female sex and older age. Patient education did not influence the rate of mixed flora. Future efforts should target high-risk patients.
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spelling pubmed-90163662022-04-19 Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship Whelan, Patrick S. Nelson, Alicia Kim, Christopher J. Tabib, Christian Preminger, Glenn M. Turner, Nicholas A. Lipkin, Michael Advani, Sonali D. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication Mixed flora in urine cultures usually occur due to preanalytic contamination. In our outpatient urology clinic, we detected a high prevalence of mixed flora (46.2%), which was associated with female sex and older age. Patient education did not influence the rate of mixed flora. Future efforts should target high-risk patients. Cambridge University Press 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9016366/ /pubmed/35445218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.260 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Advani, Sonali D.
Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship
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title_full Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship
title_fullStr Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship
title_full_unstemmed Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship
title_short Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9016366/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.260
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