ReviewNature reviews. Urology2011
Asymptomatic bacteriuria: when the treatment is worse than the disease.
Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01052545 (Guideline Implementation to Decrease Inappropriate Bacteriuria Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Guideline Implementation to Decrease Inappropriate Bacteriuria Treatment
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis for urinary tract infections after removal of urinary catheter: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013Pooled it
- Conditional reflex to urine culture: Evaluation of a diagnostic stewardship intervention within the Veterans' Affairs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Practice-Based Research Network.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2021Trial
- [Bacteriuria in patients with indwelling urinary catheters-when and how to treat? : Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infections].Urologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Improving Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics in Oncology: Reliability of Reflex Urine Culture in Immunosuppressed Neutropenic and Non-neutropenic Cancer Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
- Guideline Adherence of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Management Among Physicians in Jordan: A Cross-sectional Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Diabetes, SGLT-2 Inhibitors, and Urinary Tract Infection: a Review.Current diabetes reports · 2024Review
- Propensity Score-Weighted Analysis of Postoperative Infection in Patients With and Without Preoperative Urine Culture.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Agent Use for Urinary Tract Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities in Spain: Results from a Retrospective Analytical Cohort Analysis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Implementing diagnostic stewardship to improve diagnosis of urinary tract infections across three medical centers: A qualitative assessment.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- Characteristics Associated With Repeated Evaluations for Urinary Tract Infections in Older Women: A Case-Control Study.Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery · 2022Article
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- Impact of provider-selected indication requirement on urine test utilization and positivity.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2022Article
- Outpatient prescribing and prophylactic antibiotic use for recurrent urinary tract infections in British Columbia, Canada.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2021Article
- Quality Improvement Interventions and Implementation Strategies for Urine Culture Stewardship in the Acute Care Setting: Advances and Challenges.Current infectious disease reports · 2021Article
- A Baker's Dozen of Top Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention Publications in 2020.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Review
- Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria after Implementation of an Inpatient Urine Culture Algorithm in the Electronic Medical Record.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Description of antibiotic use variability among US nursing homes using electronic health record data.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2021Article
- The immune response to infection in the bladder.Nature reviews. Urology · 2020Review
- Urinary tract infections in the elderly: a review of disease characteristics and current treatment options.Drugs in context · 2020Review
- Knowledge and Practices of Physicians and Nurses Related to Urine Cultures in Catheterized Patients: An Assessment of Adherence to IDSA Guidelines.Open forum infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is a condition in which bacteria are present in a noncontaminated urine sample collected from a patient without signs or symptoms related to the urinary tract. ABU must be distinguished from symptomatic UTI by the absence of signs and symptoms compatible with UTI or by clinical determination that a nonurinary etiology accounts for the patient's symptoms. Interactions between the organism, the host, and the bladder environment determine whether bacteriuria leads to ABU or to UTI. ABU is a very common condition that is often treated unnecessarily with antibiotics-it should be detected and treated in pregnant women and patients undergoing urologic surgery, but in most other patient groups, treatment does not confer benefit and can be harmful. A change in prescribing behavior for ABU has been achieved through several fairly high-intensity interventions, such as interactive educational sessions for physicians, but whether these improvements persist beyond the study period is not known. Further research is needed to determine whether screening for and treatment of ABU is beneficial in patients with renal transplants, patients with orthotopic neobladders, patients undergoing prosthetic joint implantation, and patients with neutropenia.
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