Appropriateness of urinary tract infection diagnosis and treatment duration

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 489-490

  Drekonja, Dimitri M ^a,b   Okoye, Ngozika C ^b   Kuskowski, Michael A ^a   Johnson, James R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; URINARY TRACT ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VETERANS;

EID: 77950361846     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.543     Document Type: Letter

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