ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2025
A pilot intervention to improve the management of urinary tract infections in outpatient settings.
Article in Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Comparative effectiveness of oral antibiotics to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections in male outpatients.Journal of comparative effectiveness research · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objective: To describe the implementation of an outpatient UTI intervention and its impact on UTI management. Design: Quasi-experimental retrospective controlled study. Participants: Outpatient clinicians practicing in emergency and primary care settings within 8 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Methods: An intervention conducted utilizing the CDC Core Elements Antibiotic Stewardship framework between September 2022 and July 2023. Actions included academic detailing, audit feedback, and updated reflex culture procedures. Logistic regression adjusted for covariates (risk ratio [RR], 95% confidence interval [CI]), and a difference-in-differences (DID) analysis compared multiple UTI management metrics between intervention and control facilities. Results: There were 278,419 and 157,067 genitourinary (GU) tract qualifying visits [mean (SD) age 71.7 (13.9), 92.6% male] within 8 intervention and 8 control sites, respectively. Antibiotic prescribing rates for a broad-based GU tract metric that included UTIs pre/post implementation were [ Conclusions: Implementation of an outpatient UTI intervention in a predominantly male population was feasible but marginally effective.
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