Urinary tract infections, urinalysis

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection

• Asia
  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
    • Catheter-associated urinary tract infection [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Ins and outs of urinary catheters [2018]
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies
    • Chlorhexidine versus saline in reducing the risk of catheter associated urinary tract infection: A cost-effectiveness analysis [2019]
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Materia Socio-Medica
    • The Connection Between Endourological Procedures and Occurrence of Urinary Infections [2014]
• Brazil
  • Journal of Hospital Infection
    • Estimating the savings of a national project to prevent healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units [2024]
• Canada
  • Canadian Urological Association
    • Canadian Urological Association Best Practice Report: Catheter use [2020]
  • Ontario Health
    • Intermittent Catheters for Chronic Urinary Retention: A Health Technology Assessment [2019]
• Europe
  • European Association of Urology Nurses
    • Male external catheters in adults - Urinary catheter management [2016]
• High-income countries
  • BMJ Quality & Safety
    • Economic Evaluation of Quality Improvement Interventions to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Hospital Setting: A Systematic Review [2022]
• Hong Kong
  • Centre for Health Protection
    • Recommendations on Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection [2017]
• International
  • BMC Urology
    • Materials-based incidence of urinary catheter associated urinary tract infections and the causative micro-organisms: systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • BMJ Open
    • Effectiveness of meatal cleaning in the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections and bacteriuria: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Patients [2020]
  • Implementation Science
    • Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators and strategic behavioural analysis of interventions [2020]
  • Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
    • Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection: implementation strategies of international guidelines [2016]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Urinary Catheters
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CA-UTI)
• Japan
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Prevalence and appropriateness of indwelling urinary catheters in Japanese hospital wards: a multicenter point prevalence study [2022]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Hospital Infection
    • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections at intensive care units in South Korea: data from the Korean National Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance System (KONIS) [2023]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
    • Preventive Measures and Management of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adult Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia [2021]
• Switzerland
  • American Journal of Infection Control
    • Eight-year sustainability of a successful intervention to prevent urinary tract infection: A mixed-methods study [2016]
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Exploring the real-world management of catheter-associated urinary tract infections by Swiss general practitioners and urologists: insights from an online survey [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association of Urological Surgeons
    • British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and Nurses (BAUN) consensus document: management of the complications of long-term indwelling catheters [2021]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Continuous low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent urinary tract infection in adults who perform clean intermittent self-catheterisation: the AnTIC RCT [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • UroShield for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections [2022]
    • Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance
  • American Journal of Infection Control
    • Adoption of policies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in United States intensive care units [2012]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Urinary Tract Infection (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [CAUTI] and Non-Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]) and Other Urinary System Infection [USI]) Events [2024]
    • Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection Basics
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Prevention Guideline
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Enhancing Resident Safety by Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infection: A National Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Homes [2015]
  • Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
    • What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Results from a national survey in the United States [2023]
    • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection: Does Changing the Definition Change Quality? [2013]
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
    • Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America [2010]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • A Program to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Acute Care [2016]
  • Spinal Cord Series and Cases
    • When guidelines conflict: patient safety, quality of life, and CAUTI reduction in patients with spinal cord injury [2019]
• Yemen
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
    • Healthcare workers' compliance with the catheter associated urinary tract infection prevention guidelines: an observational study in Yemen [2023]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections

• Asia
  • International Journal of Urology
    • Summary of the UAA-AAUS guidelines for urinary tract infections [2018]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Improving management of urinary tract infections in residential aged care facilities [2022]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • A tale of two bladders [2024]
  • Canadian Pharmacists Journal
    • The assessment and management of urinary tract infections in adults: Guidelines for pharmacists [2017]
• China
  • International Journal of General Medicine
    • Trends in Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection in Mainland China from 1990 to 2019 [2021]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of urinary tract infections and risk factors among diabetic patients in Ethiopia, a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Europe
  • European Association of Urology
    • European Association of Urology Guidelines on Urological Infections: Summary of the 2024 Guidelines [2024]
    • EAU Guidelines on Urological Infections
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Diagnosis and management of asymptomatic bacteriuria in kidney transplant recipients: a survey of current practice in Europe [2018]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Uncomplicated Bacterial Community- acquired Urinary Tract Infection in Adults [2017]
    • Urosepsis—Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment [2015]
  • Urologia Internationalis
    • The 2017 Update of the German Clinical Guideline on Epidemiology, Diagnostics, Therapy, Prevention, and Management of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Patients: Part 1 [2018]
• International
  • Current Urology Reports
    • Association of Kidney Stones and Recurrent UTIs: the Chicken and Egg Situation. A Systematic Review of Literature [2022]
  • European Journal of Medical Research
    • The prevalence of urinary tract infections in type 2 diabetic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Disease burden and long-term trends of urinary tract infections: A worldwide report [2022]
  • Infection
    • Diagnosis and management of complicated urogenital schistosomiasis: a systematic review of the literature [2023]
  • Inquiry
    • Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection Among Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • International Urogynecology Journal
    • Quality appraisal of clinical guidelines for recurrent urinary tract infections using AGREE II: a systematic review [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics and Adults: A WikiGuidelines Group Consensus Statement [2024]
  • Journal of Diabetes Research
    • Systematic Review of Literature Examining Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections in Diabetes [2022]
  • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
    • A global perspective on improving patient care in uncomplicated urinary tract infection: expert consensus and practical guidance [2022]
  • Military Medical Research
    • Epidemiological trends of urinary tract infections, urolithiasis and benign prostatic hyperplasia in 203 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019 [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Epidemiological trends and predictions of urinary tract infections in the global burden of disease study 2021 [2025]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) in Residential Care Facilities/Nursing Homes
• Japan
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Hospitalization for urinary tract infections in Japan, 2010–2015: a retrospective study using a national inpatient database [2021]
• Lebanon
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • Escherichia coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infections of Lebanese Patients between 2005 and 2012: Epidemiology and Profiles of Resistance [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Antibiotics
    • Guideline Adherence of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Could Be Improved among General Practitioners in The Netherlands: A Survey Study [2022]
• Spain
  • Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
    • Executive summary of the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection: Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (SEIMC) [2017]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Time Trends in Spain from 2001 to 2018 in the Incidence and Outcomes of Hospitalization for Urinary Tract Infections in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Trends in Incidence and Outcomes of Hospitalizations for Urinary Tract Infection among Older People in Spain (2001–2018) [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends in hospitalisation for urinary tract infection in adults aged 18-65 by sex in Spain: 2000 to 2015 [2024]
    • Trends in urinary tract infection hospitalization in older adults in Spain from 2000-2015 [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • HSC Public Health Agency
    • Decision aid for diagnosis and management of suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) in older people [2017]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Urinary tract infections in adults [2023]
    • Urinary tract infection
  • PLoS ONE
    • Incidence and antibiotic prescribing for clinically diagnosed urinary tract infection in older adults in UK primary care, 2004-2014 [2018]
• United States
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
    • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America [2019]
  • International Journal of Clinical Practice
    • A healthy bladder: a consensus statement [2011]
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
    • Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Direct to Consumer Telemedicine [2020]
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
    • Descriptive Epidemiology and Outcomes of Hospitalizations With Complicated Urinary Tract Infections in the United States, 2018 [2022]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections: treatment
    • Urinary tract infections: screening, diagnosis
    • Urinary tract infections: prevention
    • Urinary tract infections in women
    • Urinary tract infections in men
    • Urinary tract infections in children
    • Catheter-associated urinary tract infection

Urinary tract infections in children

• Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Systematic review with meta-analysis: Prevalence, risk factors, and challenges for urinary schistosomiasis in children (USC) [2023]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Paediatric urinary tract infections: Diagnosis and treatment [2016]
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Management of paediatric recurrent urinary tract infections and challenges in special patient populations [2021]
  • Children's Health Queensland
    • Urinary tract infection – Emergency management in children
  • Kidney Health Australia
    • KHA-CARI guideline: Diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection in children [2015]
• Belgium
  • BMC Primary Care
    • Incidence rates and trends of childhood urinary tract infections and antibiotic prescribing: registry-based study in general practices (2000 to 2020) [2022]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Management of asymptomatic bacteriuria in children [2018]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for children with recurrent urinary tract infections [2015]
    • Urinary tract infection in infants and children: Diagnosis and management [2014]
• Developing countries
  • World Health Organization
    • Urinary Tract Infections in Infants and Children in Developing Countries in the Context of IMCI [2005]
• Europe
  • European Association of Urology
    • Update of the EAU/ESPU guidelines on urinary tract infections in children [2021]
    • Urinary tract infections in children: EAU/ESPU guidelines [2015]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Urinary Tract Infection in Children [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Profile of urinary tract infections in paediatric patients [2015]
  • Indian Journal of Urology
    • The Urological Society of India Guidelines for the management of pediatric urinary tract infection (Executive Summary) [2021]
• International
  • BMJ
    • Global prevalence of antibiotic resistance in paediatric urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli and association with routine use of antibiotics in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Clinical guidelines of UTIs in children: quality appraisal with AGREE II and recommendations analysis [2022]
  • Canadian Urological Association Journal
    • A critical review of recent clinical practice guidelines for pediatric urinary tract infection [2018]
• Iran
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • Bacterial Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections: A Four-Year Surveillance Study (2009–2012) [2014]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • UTI in Children
• Italy
  • Acta Paediatrica
    • Updated Italian recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the first febrile urinary tract infection in young children [2020]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • How Covid-19 changed the epidemiology of febrile urinary tract infections in children in the emergency department during the first outbreak [2022]
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis and management of urinary tract infections in children aged 2 months to 3 years in the Italian emergency units: the ItaUTI study [2022]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Clinical characteristics of pediatric febrile urinary tract infection in Japan [2021]
• New Zealand
  • Starship
    • Urinary Tract Infection
• Norway
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    • Antibiotic resistance in paediatric UTIs in Norway [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • Childhood Kidney Diseases
    • Clinical Guideline for Childhood Urinary Tract Infection (Second Revision) [2015]
• Saudi Arabia
  • International Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
    • Diagnosis and management of community-acquired urinary tract infection in infants and children: Clinical guidelines endorsed by the Saudi Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (SPIDS) [2021]
• Spain
  • Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
    • Update of the Spanish clinical practice guideline for urinary tract infection in infants and children. Summary of recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up [2024]
    • Trends in hospitalization for urinary tract infection in the paediatric age group in the 2000-2015 period in Spain [2023]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Pathogens and Global Health
    • Praziquantel efficacy, urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis reinfection - a systematic review [2023]
• Sweden
  • Acta Paediatrica
    • How Swedish guidelines on urinary tract infections in children compare to Canadian, American and European guidelines [2021]
  • Pediatric Nephrology
    • Infant urinary tract infection in Sweden - A national study of current diagnostic procedures, imaging and treatment [2024]
• Switzerland
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
    • Swiss consensus recommendations on urinary tract infections in children [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Antibiotics
    • Trends in Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Escherichia coli Isolates in a Taiwanese Child Cohort with Urinary Tract Infections between 2004 and 2018 [2020]
• Ukraine
  • Journal of Medicine and Life
    • Medical management: a model for giving medical aid to children with infectious-inflammatory diseases of the urinary system [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
    • Guidelines to identify abnormalities after childhood urinary tract infections: a prospective audit [2014]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management [2022]
    • Urinary tract infection in children and young people [2022]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Use of Systemic and Topical Fluoroquinolones [2022]
    • The Diagnosis and Management of the Initial Urinary Tract Infection in Febrile Infants and Young Children 2–24 Months of Age [2016]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Urinary Tract Infection–Child
  • Clinical Pediatrics
    • National Imaging and Antibiotic Practice Patterns in Children Presenting With Urinary Tract Infection to Community Practices: Little Impact From the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines? [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Incidence of Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic [2024]
  • Pathogens
    • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Trends in E. coli Causing Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections in the United States [2024]
  • Pediatrics
    • Ultrasound as a Screening Test for Genitourinary Anomalies in Children With UTI [2014]
• Western countries
  • Pediatric Radiology
    • Conflicting views of physicians and surgeons concerning pediatric urinary tract infection: a comparative review [2023]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections in men

• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • High antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infections in male outpatients in routine laboratory data, Germany, 2015 to 2020 [2022]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Uncomplicated UTI in Adult Male i.e. no fever or flank pain
• United States
  • Therapeutic Advances in Urology
    • Effectiveness and safety of nitrofurantoin in outpatient male veterans [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections in women

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Recurrent UTIs and cystitis symptoms in women [2021]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in the Gynecologic Practice: Time for Reviewing Concepts and Management [2017]
  • Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
    • Uncomplicated urinary infection in women: diagnosis [2011]
• Canada
  • Canadian Urological Association
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of recurrent urinary tract infection in women [2011]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection [2017]
• Canada, United States
  • American Urological Association
    • Updates to Recurrent Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women: AUA/CUA/SUFU Guideline [2022]
    • Recurrent Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women: AUA/CUA/SUFU Guideline [2019]
• Europe
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
    • Reducing antibiotic use in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adult women: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis [2022]
• Europe, United States
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
    • International clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis and pyelonephritis in women: A 2010 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [2011]
• France
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Changes in the management of urinary tract infections in women: impact of the new recommendations on antibiotic prescribing behavior in France, between 2014 and 2019 [2021]
• Germany
  • Scientific Reports
    • Escherichia coli resistance, treatment patterns and clinical outcomes among females with uUTI in Germany: a retrospective physician-based chart review study [2023]
• International
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Escherichia coli Resistance to Fluoroquinolones in Community-Acquired Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Women: a Systematic Review [2020]
  • BJU International
    • Guideline of guidelines: management of recurrent urinary tract infections in women [2022]
  • Quality of Life Research
    • Patient-reported outcome measures for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women: a systematic review [2023]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Uncomplicated UTI in Adult Non-Pregnant Females
    • Recurrent UTI in Adult, Non-Pregnant Females
• Lebanon
  • Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
    • Adherence to International Guidelines for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Lebanon [2018]
• Namibia
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
    • Antimicrobial resistance among bacteria isolated from urinary tract infections in females in Namibia, 2016-2017 [2022]
• Netherlands
  • Family Practice
    • Patterns of recurring dispensing of guideline antibiotics for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women over a 5-year period: Longitudinal patterns of recurring dispensings of Dutch guideline UTI antibiotics [2021]
  • International Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Womens' self-management skills for prevention and treatment of recurring urinary tract infection [2021]
  • Primary Health Care Research & Development
    • Adherence to guideline recommendations for urinary tract infections in adult women: a cross-sectional study [2021]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Guideline of the Swiss Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SSGO) on acute and recurrent urinary tract infections in women, including pregnancy [2020]
• Tanzania
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Female genital schistosomiasis is a neglected public health problem in Tanzania: Evidence from a scoping review [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • Evidence-based appraisal of two guidelines for the diagnosis of suspected, uncomplicated urinary tract infections in primary care: a diagnostic accuracy validation study [2023]
  • SIGN
    • Management of suspected bacterial lower urinary tract infection in adult women
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infections in Women
  • American Family Physician
    • Common Questions About Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Women [2016]
  • American Urogynecologic Society
    • American Urogynecologic Society Best-Practice Statement: Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Adult Women [2018]
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
    • Prevalence, regional distribution, and trends of antimicrobial resistance among female outpatients with urine Klebsiella spp. isolates: a multicenter evaluation in the United States between 2011 and 2019 [2024]
  • International Urogynecology Journal
    • Incidence of urosepsis or pyelonephritis after uncomplicated urinary tract infection in older women [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns and Guideline Concordance for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections Among Adult Women in the US Military Health System [2022]
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
    • Low Concordance With Guidelines for Treatment of Acute Cystitis in Primary Care [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effect of a Stewardship Intervention on Adherence to Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis Guidelines in an Emergency Department Setting [2014]
  • Urology
    • Incidence and management of uncomplicated recurrent urinary tract infections in a national sample of women in the United States [2016]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections: prevention

• Canada
  • Canadian Urological Association Journal
    • Could sublingual vaccination be a viable option for the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in Canada? A systematic review of the current literature and plans for the future [2020]
• International
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections [2023]
• Ireland
  • EuroSurveillance
    • A comparative analysis of prophylactic antimicrobial use in long-term care facilities in Ireland, 2013 and 2016 [2019]
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Deprescribing UTI prophylaxis
• Japan
  • International Journal of Urology
    • Essential Japanese guidelines for the prevention of perioperative infections in the urological field: 2015 edition [2016]
• Latin America
  • Therapeutic Advances in Urology
    • Prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections: bridging the gap between clinical practice and guidelines in Latin America [2019]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Methenamine hippurate compared with antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in women: the ALTAR non-inferiority RCT [2022]
• United States
  • American Journal of Infection Control
    • Promoting prevention through meaningful measures: Improving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance Definitions [2015]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections: screening, diagnosis

• Canada
  • BCGuidelines
    • Urinary Tract Infections in the Primary Care Setting – Investigation
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • When urine testing to rule out infection does more harm than good [2024]
• Finland
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Increasing proportions of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing isolates among Escherichia coli from urine and bloodstream infections: results from a nationwide surveillance network, Finland, 2008 to 2019 [2023]
• International
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Exploring the clinical and diagnostic value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for urinary tract infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
    • Clinical effectiveness of point of care tests for diagnosing urinary tract infection: a systematic review [2024]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Position Statements Dipstick Urinalysis for UTIs in Adults
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Trends in urine sampling rates of general practice patients with suspected lower urinary tract infections in England, 2015-2022: a population-based study [2024]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to reduce antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review and conceptual economic model [2024]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to improve antimicrobial prescribing: early value assessment [2023]
  • Public Health England
    • Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Investigation of urine [2019]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Acute Pyelonephritis
  • American Family Physician
    • Office-Based Urinalysis: A Comprehensive Review [2022]
  • American Society for Microbiology
    • Effectiveness of Preanalytic Practices on Contamination and Diagnostic Accuracy of Urine Cultures: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2015]
  • Diagnostics
    • A New Gold Rush: A Review of Current and Developing Diagnostic Tools for Urinary Tract Infections [2021]
  • Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
    • Inappropriate testing for urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients: an opportunity for improvement [2013]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening [2019]
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  • Topic
    • Urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections: treatment

• Africa
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Enterobacteriaceae Causing Urinary Tract Infections in Africa [2013]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • What to do about recurrent urinary tract infections: A review of evidence behind emerging therapies [2024]
• Canada
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Cost-effectiveness and budget impact of the management of uncomplicated urinary tract infection by community pharmacists [2019]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Regional variation in the potentially inappropriate first-line use of fluoroquinolones in Canada as a key to antibiotic stewardship? A drug utilization review study [2021]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Assessment of urinary incontinence in older adults, part 2: treatment [2024]
• China
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • In vitro susceptibility of Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine samples obtained in mainland China to fosfomycin trometamol and other antibiotics: a 9-year surveillance study (2004–2012) [2014]
• Denmark
  • European Geriatric Medicine
    • Use of antibiotics for urinary tract infections up to and after care home admission in Denmark: a nationwide study [2024]
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
    • Prescription of antibiotics for urinary tract infection in general practice in Denmark [2019]
• Europe
  • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
    • Rediscovering the value of fosfomycin trometamol in the era of antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review and expert opinion [2023]
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
    • Different recommendations for empiric first-choice antibiotic treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in Europe [2013]
• France
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Antibiotic prescriptions and risk factors for antimicrobial resistance in patients hospitalized with urinary tract infection: a matched case-control study using the French health insurance database (SNDS) [2021]
• Ghana
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • High Resistance to Antibiotics Recommended in Standard Treatment Guidelines in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Patients with Urinary Tract Infections between 2017-2021 [2022]
• High-income countries
  • Annals of Pharmacotherapy
    • A Systematic Review of Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions to Improve Management of Bacteriuria in Hospitalized Adults [2023]
• India
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Treatment of uncomplicated symptomatic urinary tract infections: Resistance patterns and misuse of antibiotics [2015]
• International
  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
    • Economic Burden of Community-Acquired Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infections: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2024]
• Iran
  • International Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Pattern of Antibacterial Resistance in Urinary Tract Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2019]
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Epidemiology of Multidrug Resistant Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Iran: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2017]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Acute Pyelonephritis
• Japan
  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
    • Japanese guideline for clinical research of antimicrobial agents on urogenital infections: Second edition [2016]
• Lebanon
  • BMJ Open Quality
    • Compliance to international guidelines and rational use of antibiotics in urinary tract infections in a country without national guidance: a cross-sectional study [2024]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Primary Care
    • Adherence to and usefulness of the national treatment guideline for urinary tract infections (UTI) in a risk area [2022]
  • BMJ Open
    • New methodology to assess the excess burden of antibiotic resistance using country-specific parameters: a case study regarding E. coli urinary tract infections [2023]
    • Trends of prescribing antimicrobial drugs for urinary tract infections in primary care in the Netherlands: a population-based cohort study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Recommendations for the Empirical Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections Using Surveillance Data on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Netherlands [2014]
  • Primary Health Care Research & Development
    • Urine cultures and antibiotics for urinary tract infections in Dutch general practice [2018]
• Norway
  • BMC Family Practice
    • Consultations and antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in Norwegian primary care 2006–2015, a registry-based study [2021]
  • BMC Geriatrics
    • Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacteria causing urinary tract infections in the elderly living in nursing homes versus the elderly living at home: an observational study [2015]
• Portugal
  • BioMed Research International
    • Incidence and Diversity of Antimicrobial Multidrug Resistance Profiles of Uropathogenic Bacteria [2015]
• Republic of Korea
  • Infection & Chemotherapy
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Antibiotic Treatment of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections [2018]
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Susceptibility of Escherichia coli from Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infection to Fosfomycin, Nitrofurantoin, and Temocillin in Korea [2014]
• Spain
  • Revista Española de Quimioterapia
    • Clinical management of cUTI, cIAI, and HABP/VABP attributable to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections in Spain [2021]
• Sweden
  • PLoS ONE
    • Increased adherence to treatment guidelines in patients with urinary tract infection in primary care: A retrospective study [2019]
• Switzerland
  • BMC Family Practice
    • Treatment of urinary tract infections in Swiss primary care: quality and determinants of antibiotic prescribing [2020]
• Taiwan
  • Internal Medicine
    • Outcome of Nonadherence to Antimicrobial Treatment Guidelines in Ambulatory Patients with Acute Cystitis: A Nationwide Population-based Study [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ
    • Antibiotic management of urinary tract infection in elderly patients in primary care and its association with bloodstream infections and all cause mortality: population based cohort study [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing for urinary tract infections in secondary care in England: a cost-effectiveness analysis [2024]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Lower Urinary Tract Infections: Management, Outcomes and Risk Factors for Antibiotic Re-prescription in Primary Care [2019]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Urinary tract infection (recurrent): antimicrobial prescribing [2024]
    • Urinary tract infection (lower): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
    • Pyelonephritis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
    • Complicated urinary tract infections: ceftolozane/tazobactam [2016]
• United States
  • Academic Emergency Medicine
    • High prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant UTI among US emergency department patients diagnosed with urinary tract infection, 2018-2020 [2022]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • A multicenter analysis of trends in resistance in urinary Enterobacterales isolates from ambulatory patients in the United States: 2011-2020 [2022]
    • Burden of illness in US hospitals due to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative urinary tract infections in patients with or without bacteraemia [2021]
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Benefit-Risk Considerations for Cefiderocol (Fetroja®) [2021]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: Developing Drugs for Treatment Guidance for Industry [2018]
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    • Nitrofurantoin retains antimicrobial activity against multidrug-resistant urinary Escherichia coli from US outpatients [2014]
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
    • Assessment of Inappropriate Antibiotic Use and Guideline Adherence for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections [2018]
  • Rhode Island Medical Journal
    • To Treat or Not to Treat: UTI or Bacteriuria? [2020]
• Western countries
  • International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
    • Clinical management protocols for community pharmacist-led management of urinary tract infections: a review of the grey literature and quality appraisal [2024]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Target product profiles for oral therapy of urinary tract infections [2020]
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