A new study found that nearly three-quarters of primary care clinicians would prescribe antibiotics for bacteria in urine against established guidelines. In a survey study of primary care clinicians, ...

Nonpregnant women. Longitudinal studies in different populations of women have reported no evidence of an association between asymptomatic bacteriuria and adverse outcomes such as hypertension, renal ...

Pregnant women should be screened for asymptomatic bacteriuria using a urine culture, according to a U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement published in JAMA. The task force ...

UTIs occur in 10% of pregnancies and are easily treated with antibiotics. If left untreated, a UTI can jeopardize the pregnancy.

When used correctly, pitocin can be very helpful for progressing labor. Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria may not lead to better outcomes among pregnant women and exposes them to unnecessary ...

Objective: To study the prevalence of and risk factors for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in women with and without diabetes. Research Design And Methods: A total of 636 nonpregnant women with ...

An intervention in which the colony-count threshold was increased for identifying potential urinary pathogens among hospitalized patients reduced antimicrobial prescribing for the treatment of ...

The USPSTF has made updates to the 2008 recommendations on screening for and treating asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant and nonpregnant persons. During pregnancy, asymptomatic bacteriuria may ...

PYELONEPHRITIS is a common and often severe complication of diabetes mellitus. It is generally believed that pyelonephritis occurs more frequently among diabetic than among nondiabetic persons. 1–3 ...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common infections diagnosed in nursing home residents. 1,2 However, existing recommendations advise against the use of antibiotics in patients with ...

A comparison of two methods of screening schoolgirls for asymptomatic bacteriuria has shown that a supervised method of collection successfully obtained specimens of urine from 96·3%, but that the ...