Opportunities for antibiotic stewardship in emergency department or hospitalized patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria: identifying risk factors for antibiotic treatment

• Principais autores: Morgan L. Bixby (Autor), Brian R. Raux (Autor), Aakansha Bhalla (Autor), Christopher McCoy (Autor), Elizabeth B. Hirsch (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Antibiotic treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is considered inappropriate and may lead to adverse events. This 2-center, retrospective cohort study including emergency department or inpatient adults identified pyuria (odds ratio, 2.43; 95% confidence interval, 1.17-5.01; P = .02) as the onl...