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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2019

The IOU Consensus Recommendations for Empirical Therapy of Cystitis in Nursing Home Residents.

Joseph T Hanlon, Subashan Perera, Paul J Drinka, Christopher J Crnich, Steven J Schweon, Michele Klein-Fedyshin, Charles B Wessel, Stacey Saracco, Gulsum Anderson, Mary Mulligan and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Unlocking Nitrofurantoin: Understanding Molecular Mechanisms of Action and Resistance in Enterobacterales.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2025
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  6. Loss of NLRP3 increases bacterial cystitis via IRAKM.Translational andrology and urology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joseph T HanlonDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Subashan PereraDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Paul J DrinkaDivisions of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Christopher J CrnichInfectious Disease, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Steven J SchweonInfection Prevention Consultant, Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
Michele Klein-FedyshinHealth Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Charles B WesselHealth Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Stacey SaraccoDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Gulsum AndersonDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mary MulliganAMDA, The Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Columbia, Maryland.
David A NaceDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-3742-6991
University of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · USThe Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine · US

Funding

VARIABILITY, STABILITY & SMOOTHNESS OF WALKINGP30AG024827 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI JENNIFER S BRACH · 2004 to 2026
$28.6M
Improving Outcomes of UTI in LTC Facilities: The IOU StudyR18HS023779 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI NACE, DAVID A. · 2015 to 2017
$1.4M
AHRQ HHS R18 HS023779NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo establish consensus recommendations for empirical treatment of uncomplicated cystitis with anti-infectives in noncatheterized older nursing home residents to be implemented in the Improving Outcomes of UTI Management in Long-Term Care Project (IOU) funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

designTwo-round modified Delphi survey.

participantsExpert panel of 19 clinical pharmacists. MEASUREMENTS: Comprehensive literature search and development/review/edit of draft survey by the investigative group (one geriatric clinical pharmacist, two geriatric medicine physicians, and one infectious disease physician). The expert panel members rated their agreement with each of 31 recommendations for drugs of choice, dosing medications at various levels of renal function, drug-drug interactions to avoid, and duration of therapy by sex on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree). Consensus agreement was defined as a lower 95% confidence limit of 4.0 or higher for the recommendation-specific mean score.

resultsThe response rate was 95% for the first round, and three recommendations achieved consensus (dosing for nitrofurantoin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in those without chronic kidney disease, and drug-drug interaction between trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and warfarin). In the second round, 90% responded and reached consensus on an additional eight recommendations (two for nitrofurantoin or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole as initial drugs of choice, three for dosing ciprofloxacin, nitrofurantoin, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole at various levels of chronic kidney disease, and three drug-drug interactions to avoid: trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole with phenytoin and ciprofloxacin with theophylline or with tizanidine).

conclusionAn expert panel of clinical pharmacists was able to reach consensus on a set of recommendations for the empirical treatment of cystitis with oral anti-infective medications in older nursing home residents. The recommendations were incorporated into a treatment algorithm for uncomplicated cystitis in noncatheterized nursing home residents and used in educational materials for health professionals in an ongoing controlled intervention study. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:539-545, 2019.

Indexed as

Anti-Infective AgentsCystitisLong-Term CareAgedDelphi TechniqueDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug InteractionsDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleGeriatricsHumansMaleMedication Therapy ManagementNursing HomesQuality ImprovementUnited StatesAnti-Infective Agentsagedantibacterial agentscystitisnursing homesurinary tract infection

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PMID30584657
PMCPMC7980083
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