Analysis included 504 US adults 65 years and older reading a scenario of an asymptomatic patient with a positive urine test prior to a nonurologic surgical procedure. HealthDay News — Receipt of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the study, the researchers surveyed 551 primary care clinicians in the United States from June 1, 2018, to ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is defined as the presence of ≥100,000 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of bacteria in a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of patients with a positive urine culture, 35% had no documented urinary tract infection-related symptoms.

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 ...

An estimated 70 percent of primary care physicians reported in a survey that they would still prescribe antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections based solely on a positive urine specimen. This is ...

Fully 70% of primary care physicians say that they would prescribe antibiotics for patients who are asymptomatic for urinary tract infections (UTIs) when urine culture results are positive for ...

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) ...

A new study found that nearly three-quarters of primary care clinicians would prescribe antibiotics for bacteria in urine against established guidelines. In a survey study of primary care clinicians, ...

As an infectious disease physician, I get multiple phone calls, curbsides, and consults every day from providers looking for help in diagnosing or managing urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Respondents were less comfortable not taking antibiotics and more likely to misperceive ASB as a UTI when told that the surgeon recommends antibiotics. HealthDay News — Receipt of a patient-centered ...