Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals?
INTRODUCTION: Urine specimens are among the most common samples submitted for culture to microbiology laboratories. The objectives of the present study were to describe the indications for obtaining urine cultures in a cohort of hospitalized patients, and to determine the appropriateness of antimicr...
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| description | INTRODUCTION: Urine specimens are among the most common samples submitted for culture to microbiology laboratories. The objectives of the present study were to describe the indications for obtaining urine cultures in a cohort of hospitalized patients, and to determine the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy in response to urine culture results. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8ee0c2e846c846659b66617cca857be62025-02-03T01:20:47ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology1712-95322009-01-0120410711110.1155/2009/702545Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals?Samuel A Silver0Laura Baillie1Andrew E Simor2Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, CanadaDepartment of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, CanadaDepartment of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, CanadaINTRODUCTION: Urine specimens are among the most common samples submitted for culture to microbiology laboratories. The objectives of the present study were to describe the indications for obtaining urine cultures in a cohort of hospitalized patients, and to determine the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy in response to urine culture results.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/702545 |
| spellingShingle | Samuel A Silver Laura Baillie Andrew E Simor Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology |
| title | Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? |
| title_full | Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? |
| title_fullStr | Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? |
| title_short | Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? |
| title_sort | positive urine cultures a major cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use in hospitals |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/702545 |
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