Open AccessPredictive Utility of Prior Positive Urine Cultures
Author(s) -
Derek R. MacFadden,
Jessica P. Ridgway,
Ari Robicsek,
Marion Elligsen,
Nick Daneman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu588
Subject(s) - urine , ciprofloxacin , medicine , urinary system , confidence interval , cohort , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A patient's prior urine cultures are often considered when choosing empiric antibiotic therapy for a suspected urinary tract infection. We sought to evaluate how well previous urine cultures predict the identity and susceptibility of organisms in a patient's subsequent urine cultures.
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