Observational studyBMC geriatrics2015
Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacteria causing urinary tract infections in the elderly living in nursing homes versus the elderly living at home: an observational study.
Observational study in BMC geriatrics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Molecular Characterization and Antibiotic Resistance of Broad-SpectrumInternational journal of microbiology · 2026Article
- Full Validation of Pooled Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Using CLSI Methods and Performance Criteria in UTI Pathogens.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Lower Urinary Tract Inflammation and Infection: Key Microbiological and Immunological Aspects.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- From Awareness to Action: Pioneering Solutions for Women's UTI Challenges in the Era of Precision Medicine.International journal of women's health · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial resistance inInfection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- High antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infections in male outpatients in routine laboratory data, Germany, 2015 to 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Observational
- Reported Cases of Urinary Tract Infections and the Susceptibility of Uropathogens from Hospitals in Northern Ghana.Microbiology insights · 2022Article
- Bloodstream infections in older population: epidemiology, outcome, and impact of multidrug resistance.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2021Article
- Antibiotic-resistant pathogens associated with urinary tract infections in nursing homes: Summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network Long-Term Care Facility Component, 2013-2017.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2021Article
- Bacterial Profile, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern, and Associated Factors of Community- and Hospital-Acquired Urinary Tract Infection at Dessie Referral Hospital, Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia.International journal of microbiology · 2021Article
- Gram-negative Organisms from Patients with Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections and Associated Risk Factors for Antimicrobial Resistance: A Single-Center Retrospective Observational Study in Japan.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Palliative care and infection management at end of life in nursing homes: A descriptive survey.Palliative medicine · 2020Article
- Urinary tract infections in the elderly: a review of disease characteristics and current treatment options.Drugs in context · 2020Review
- Prescription of antibiotics for urinary tract infection in general practice in Denmark.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2019Article
- Observational
- Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Uropathogens from cases of urinary tract infections (UTI) in Shashemene referral hospital, Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Acid-Suppressive Therapy and Risk of Infections: Pros and Cons.Clinical drug investigation · 2017Review
- Sepsis and Other Infectious Disease Emergencies in the Elderly.Emergency medicine clinics of North America · 2016Review
- State of the Globe: Rising Antimicrobial Resistance of Pathogens in Urinary Tract Infection.Journal of global infectious diseasesArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAntibiotic resistance is a problem in nursing homes. Presumed urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common infection. This study examines urine culture results from elderly patients to see if specific guidelines based on gender or whether the patient resides in a nursing home (NH) are warranted.
methodsThis is a cross sectional observation study comparing urine cultures from NH patients with urine cultures from patients in the same age group living in the community.
resultsThere were 232 positive urine cultures in the NH group and 3554 in the community group. Escherichia coli was isolated in 145 urines in the NH group (64%) and 2275 (64%) in the community group. There were no clinically significant differences in resistance. Combined, there were 3016 positive urine cultures from females and 770 from males. Escherichia coli was significantly more common in females 2120 (70%) than in males 303 (39%) (p < 0.05). Enterococcus faecalis was significantly less common in females 223 (7%) than males 137 (18%) (p < 0.05). For females, there were lower resistance rates to ciprofloxacin among Escherichia coli (7% vs 12%; p < 0.05) and to mecillinam among Proteus mirabilis (3% vs 12%; p < 0.05).
conclusionsDifferences in resistance rates for patients in the nursing home do not warrant separate recommendations for empiric antibiotic therapy, but recommendations based on gender seem warranted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.