Urine testing is associated with inappropriate antibiotic use and increased length of stay in emergency department patients

BACKGROUND: Exposing patients with a low probability of disease to diagnostic testing with poor test characteristics leads to false positive results. Providers often act on these false results, which can cause unnecessary evaluation and treatment. The treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria is discour...

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Autores principales: Childers, Richard, Liotta, Ben, Brennan, Jesse, Wang, Phoebe, Kattoula, Jacob, Tran, Thien, Montilla-Guedez, Henry, Castillo, Edward M., Vilke, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9587269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36281377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11049

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9587269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36281377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11049

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