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- Title
Inappropriate treatment of catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria in a tertiary care hospital.
- Authors
Cope, Matthew; Cevallos, Manuel E; Cadle, Richard M; Darouiche, Rabih O; Musher, Daniel M; Trautner, Barbara W
- Abstract
Evidence-based guidelines state that asymptomatic bacteriuria is not a clinically significant condition in men and nonpregnant women and that treatment is unlikely to confer clinical benefit. We hypothesized that, among patients with indwelling catheters or condom collection systems, many who receive a diagnosis of and are treated for catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) actually have asymptomatic bacteriuria and, therefore, that antibiotic therapy is inappropriate.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 9, p1182
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1086/597403