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ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2025

Stewarding the inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection: leveraging the urinalysis to understand true antibiotic overuse.

Whitney Hartlage, Alyssa Y Castillo, Zahra Kassamali Escobar, Maria Bajenov, Natalia Martinez-Paz, John B Lynch, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, Jeannie D Chan

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Article in Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Routine admission urinalysis has low clinical utility in psychiatric hospitalizations.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Whitney HartlageVeteran's Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0011-031X
Alyssa Y CastilloUniversity of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9209-1226
Zahra Kassamali EscobarUniversity of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1916-0269
Maria BajenovUniversity of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Natalia Martinez-PazUniversity of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
John B LynchUniversity of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9018-8542
Chloe Bryson-Cahn *University of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Jeannie D Chan *University of Washington Center for Stewardship in Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3741-5305

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated 249 asymptomatic patients receiving antibiotics for urinary infection: 222 had asymptomatic pyuria and/or nitrituria (ASPN) and 133 had asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB, growth ≥10

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PMID40026777
PMCPMC11869048

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