When are empiric antibiotics appropriate for urinary tract infection symptoms?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 338-342

  DeAlleaume, Lauren ^a   Tweed, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESTERASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; NITRITE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CYSTITIS; DRUG COST; DYSURIA; EMPIRICISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; NOCTURIA; POLLAKISURIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYURIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELECONSULTATION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; PRESCRIPTION; TIME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33645741900     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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