ReviewJournal of general internal medicine1999
Variation by specialty in the treatment of urinary tract infection in women.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- When Empiric Therapy Fails: Clinical and Economic Consequences in uUTIs Among US Women.Microorganisms · 2026Article
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- Does shifting to professional emergency department staffing affect the decision for chest radiography?World journal of emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Reevaluation of the Acute Cystitis Symptom Score, a Self-Reporting Questionnaire. Part I. Development, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Knowledge and Practice Discordance in Treating Urinary Tract Infections.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2018Article
- Resistance surveillance studies: a multifaceted problem--the fluoroquinolone example.Infection · 2012Review
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- Urinary tract infection in women--physician's preferences for treatment and adherence to guidelines: a national drug utilization study in a managed care setting.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2003Article
- Urinary tract infections in adult general practice patients.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002Review
- Practice guidelines for the treatment of uncomplicated cystitis.Current urology reports · 2001Review
- Urinalysis and urinary tract infection: update for clinicians.Infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology · 2001Review
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Abstract
To determine practicing physicians' strategies for diagnosing and managing uncomplicated urinary tract infection, we surveyed physicians in general internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency medicine in four states. Responses differed significantly by respondents' specialty. For example, nitrofurantoin was the antibiotic of first choice for 46% of obstetricians, while over 80% in the other specialties chose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Most surveyed said they do not usually order urine culture, but the percentage who do varied by specialty. Most use a colony count of 10(5) colony-forming units or more for diagnosis although evidence favors a lower threshold, and 70% continue antibiotic therapy even if the culture result is negative. This survey found considerable variation by specialty and also among individual physicians regarding diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection and also suggests that some of the new information from the literature has not been translated to clinical practice.
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