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 ...

—Researchers in Australia identified urine microscopy with culture and sensitivity as a potentially overused test in the diagnosis of urinary tract infection. Reducing unnecessary testing in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A decline in antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria was linked to a decline in unnecessary urine cultures.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The automated system accurately identified 98.1% of negative cultures. The ...

The Ann Arbor Guide to Triaging Adults with Suspected UTI includes two step-by-step tools: One for non-pregnant women and one ...

Claims for unregulated rapid molecular diagnostic tests for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults have soared 60-fold from 2016 to 2023, according to Medicare data. The rise was most ...

If healthcare workers in long-term care communities can reduce unnecessary urine culture testing on residents, they can also lower the amount of unneeded antibiotics, according to a new report in The ...

Dear Doctors: I have had a UTI several times and know the symptoms. This last time, when I went to urgent care, they said they needed a urine culture before they could treat me. It was another day of ...

Your urine is not useless waste! In certain cultures, it is used as a skin protectant, an anti-infectious agent, and - surprisingly - a tooth whitener, among myriad other uses Urine is not just, as ...

Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months.