Preoperative Urine Cultures at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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Preoperative urine cultures at a veterans affairs medical center.
T he value of preoperative urine screening is unproven, except before urologic procedures, in which detection and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria is beneficial. Despite this, authors of multiple small case series advocate for screening before nonurologic procedures. However, patients with detected bacteriuria may undergo further testing and, if prescribed antimicrobial drugs, can develop ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Internal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2168-6106
DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.834