ArticleERJ open research2016
Pneumococcal urinary antigen test use in diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia in seven Utah hospitals.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Factors Associated With Pneumonia Severity in Children: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2018Pooled it
- ERS/ESCMID state-of-the-science statement on the role of rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and management of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections.The European respiratory journal · 2026Review
- No culture? No problem: Clinical utility and pitfalls of non-culture diagnostics for pneumococcal parapneumonic effusions.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Things We Do for No Reason - OrderingOpen forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Derivation and external validation of a prediction model for pneumococcal urinary antigen test positivity in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2023Article
- A case report of disseminatedAccess microbiology · 2023Article
- Impact ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Urinary Antigen Testing for Respiratory Infections: Current Perspectives on Utility and Limitations.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Review
- Effectiveness of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Urinary Antigen Testing in Decreasing Mortality of COVID-19 Co-Infected Patients: A Clinical Investigation.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
- Pneumococcal Urinary Antigen Testing in United States Hospitals: A Missed Opportunity for Antimicrobial Stewardship.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- Performance of pneumococcal urinary antigen test in patients with community-onset pneumonia: a propensity score-matching study.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2020Article
- Determinants of empirical antipseudomonal antibiotic prescription for adults with pneumonia in the emergency department.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2020Observational
- Urinary antigen testing for pneumococcal pneumonia: is there evidence to make its use uncommon in clinical practice?ERJ open research · 2020Review
- Pneumococcal and Legionella Urinary Antigen Tests in Community-acquired Pneumonia: Prospective Evaluation of Indications for Testing.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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- Prognostic value of pneumococcal urinary antigen test in community-acquired pneumonia.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
The pneumocococcal urine antigen test increases specific microbiological diagnosis over conventional culture methods in pneumonia patients. Data are limited regarding its yield and effect on antibiotic prescribing among patients with community-onset pneumonia in clinical practice. We performed a secondary analysis of 2837 emergency department patients admitted to seven Utah hospitals over 2 years with international diagnostic codes version 9 codes and radiographic evidence of pneumonia. Mean age was 64.2 years, 47.2% were male and all-cause 30-day mortality was 9.6%. Urinary antigen testing was performed in 1110 (39%) patients yielding 134 (12%) positives. Intensive care unit patients were more likely to undergo testing, and have a positive result (15%
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