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- Title
Urinalysis is predictive for absence of urinary tract infection in men with and without catheters.
- Authors
Oh, Paul; Lewis, Kevin C.; Shoskes, Daniel A.; Vasavada, Sandip; Goldman, Howard B.; Wood, Hadley M.; Rhoads, Daniel D.; Werneburg, Glenn T.
- Abstract
Objectives: To determine accuracy of negative urinalysis (UA) for predicting negative urine culture and the absence of urinary tract infection (UTI), and optimal urine culture growth cutoff for UTI diagnosis in men with and without urinary catheters. Subjects and Methods: UAs with urine cultures within 1 week from adult men were identified and evaluated. Predictive values for the absence of UTI (absence of ≥1 of the following criteria: documentation of UTI diagnosis, antibiotic prescription, uropathogen presence on culture) were calculated. Results: In total, 22 883 UAs were included. Negative UA had a high predictive value for negative urine culture (0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94–0.95) and absence of UTI (0.99, CI: 0.99–0.995) in the overall cohort. Negative UA also had a high predictive value for negative urine culture (0.93, CI: 0.90–0.95) and absence of UTI (0.99, CI: 0.98–0.999) in those with indwelling urinary catheters. The traditional threshold of culture growth of 100 000 colony‐forming units (CFU)/mL did not capture 22% of UTIs. Conclusion: UA exhibits high predictive value for negative urine culture and absence of UTI in men, supporting a protocol wherein culture is only performed in the context of abnormal UA. The traditional 100 000 CFU/mL cut‐off may have not captured a subset of UTI in the male population, and warrants further investigation.
- Subjects
URINARY tract infections; URINARY catheters; IMPLANTABLE catheters; CONFIDENCE intervals; CYSTITIS
- Publication
Neurourology & Urodynamics, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 8, p1850
- ISSN
0733-2467
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/nau.25549