ReviewInfectious disease clinics of North America2014
Approach to a positive urine culture in a patient without urinary symptoms.
Review in Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2014. 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 10 papers.
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Guideline Implementation to Decrease Inappropriate Bacteriuria Treatment
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emergency medicine physicians treating urine cultures when it is not clear they should.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of Diagnostic Stewardship on Urine Culture Ordering in Saudi Arabia: Prospective Pre- and Postintervention Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- Influence of a microbiological commentary on the management of asymptomatic bacteriuria.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial Management of Urinary Tract Infections: Insights from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman.Oman medical journal · 2025Article
- A double-blinded randomized placebo-controlled non-inferiority trial protocol for postoperative infections associated with canine pyometra.BMC veterinary research · 2023Article
- Exploration of Primary Care Clinician Attitudes and Cognitive Characteristics Associated With Prescribing Antibiotics for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Bacterial Pathogens in Urinary Tract Infections in University Hospital of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" between 2017 and 2018.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Inappropriate Management of Asymptomatic Patients With Positive Urine Cultures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2017Article
- The unexplored relationship between urinary tract infections and the autonomic nervous system.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2016Review
- Treatment for Positive Urine Cultures in Hospitalized Adults: A Survey of Prevalence and Risk Factors in 3 Medical Centers.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2016Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) 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. ASB must be distinguished from symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) by the absence of signs and symptoms compatible with UTI or by clinical determination that a nonurinary cause accounts for the patient's symptoms. The overall purpose of this review is to promote an awareness of ASB as a distinct condition from UTI and to empower clinicians to withhold antibiotics in situations in which antimicrobial treatment of bacteriuria is not indicated.
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