When are empiric antibiotics appropriate for urinary tract infection symptoms?

dc.contributor.author	DeAlleaume, Lauren	eng
dc.contributor.author	Tweed, Elizabeth M.	eng
dc.date.issued	2006	eng
dc.description.abstract	Healthy, nonpregnant women presenting with the triad of frequency, dysuria, and no vaginal symptoms have about a 96% chance of having an urinary tract infection (UTI) (positive likelihood ratio [LR+]=24.6). Since no urinalysis result would substantially change the high likelihood of disease for these patients, empiric therapy is appropriate (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B).	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/3585	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	Family Physicians Inquiries Network	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcollection	Clinical Inquiries, 2006 (MU)	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity	University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Medicine. Department of Family and Community Medicine. Family Physicians Inquiries Network	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of family practice, 55, no. 04 (April 2006)	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.	eng
dc.subject	dysuria	eng
dc.subject	pyelonephritis	eng
dc.subject	urination frequency	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Urinary tract infections	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Antibiotics	eng
dc.title	When are empiric antibiotics appropriate for urinary tract infection symptoms?	eng
dc.type	Article	eng

Clinical Inquiries, 2006
The items in this collection constitute volume 55 of Clinical Inquiries.