Temporal trends in urine-culture rates in the US acute-care hospitals, 2017-2020

• Main Authors: Sophia Kazakova (Author), Natalie McCarthy (Author), James Baggs (Author), Kelly Hatfield (Author), Babatunde Wolford (Author), Babatunde Olubajo (Author), John Jernigan (Author), Sujan Reddy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Previously, we reported decreasing postadmission urine-culture rates in hospitalized patients between 2012 and 2017, indicating a possible decrease in hospital-onset urinary tract infections or changes in diagnostic practices in acute-care hospitals (ACHs). In this study, we re-evaluated...