If you don't test, they will not treat: Impact of stopping preoperative screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is not recommended outside of patients undergoing invasive urological procedures and during pregnancy. Despite national guidelines recommending against screening for ASB, this practice is prevalent. We present outcomes from a quality-improvement intervention targeting patients undergoing cardiac artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) at Massachusetts General Hospital, a tertiary-care hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where preoperative testing checklists were modified to remove routine urinalysis and urine culture. This was a before-and-after intervention study.

Methods

Prior to the intervention, screening for ASB was included in the preoperative check list for all patients undergoing CABG. We assessed the proportion of

SUBMITTER: Winkler ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226188 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature