1115. Reducing Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections: A Multimodal Stewardship Intervention

Uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common types of bacterial infection in outpatient medicine. Rising rates of antibiotic resistance and a better understanding of the ecological adverse effects (collateral damage) of antibiotics warrant a reevaluation of the treatment recommendations for uncomplicated UTI. The new S3 guideline contains updated recommendations. METHO...

A Review of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Urinary Tract Infections.

Urinary tract infections are the most common bacterial infections encountered in ambulatory and long-term care settings in the United States. Urine samples are the largest single category of specimens received by most microbiology laboratories and many such cultures are collected from patients who have no or questionable urinary symptoms. Unfortunately, antimicrobials are often prescribed inapp...

Antibiotics or NSAIDs for uncomplicated urinary tract infection?

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is second only to respiratory tract infection in the use of antibiotics. It is an international priority to rationalise antibiotic use in primary care given the dangers of antibiotic resistance and the evidence that prescribing in primary care is likely to be a key driver of antibiotic resistance. The trial by Kronenberg and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj. j4784) prov...

Comparative effectiveness of antibiotics for uncomplicated urinary tract infections: network meta-analysis of randomized trials.

BACKGROUND The efficacies and adverse effects of different antibiotics for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been studied by standard meta-analytic methods using pairwise direct comparisons of antimicrobial treatments: the effects of one treatment are compared to those of either another treatment or placebo. However, for clinical decisions, we need to know the effectiveness of ...