Curb Unnecessary UTI Screening to Avoid the Temptation to Treat

June 2019

You'll see more focus on avoiding antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria...due to updated guidelines from the Infect Dis Soc of Am.

These patients DON'T have UTI symptoms...dysuria, frequency, flank pain, etc...despite 100,000 CFU/mL or more bacteria in the urine.

This is a common finding...especially in patients with a catheter, with a spinal cord injury, or who reside in a long-term care facility.

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