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Hospitals may be able to boost antimicrobial stewardship and reduce the number of patients who start antimicrobial therapy by changing their urine culture ordering practices, according to a study ...

WASHINGTON -- Michigan hospitals were able to cut down on unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) thanks to better diagnostic stewardship, according to a study. The percentage of ...

Almost all women who exhibited symptoms of a urinary tract infection, but had a negative urine culture, actually had an infection, a small Belgian study found. The authors said that dysuria, frequency ...

Patients with nongenitourinary sepsis have the highest risk for intensive care unit (ICU) admission, prolonged hospital stay, and representation within 3 days post-discharge. This multicenter ...

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers reported on the execution of two electronic healthcare record (EHR) interventions for reducing urine culture (UC) ...

NHS surgeon Dr Rajan warns that not all urinary infections are bacterial and antibiotics may not be necessary.