Developing a Tool for Prospective Assessment of Treatment Appropriateness in Urinary Tract Infections.

ABSTRACT: Background: Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health. Antimicrobial stewardship programs need to identify inappropriate antibiotic use patterns and offer practical recommendations to prescribers and institutions. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common syndrome for which a standardized tool would be useful when treatment appropriateness is assessed. To date, few UTI treatment assessment tools have been published, and the available tools do not support appropriateness assessment against published guidelines, or consistent adjudication from one auditor to another. Objective: To develop a tool for auditing UTI antibiotic therapy that assesses treatment appropriateness based on guideline concordance, and with high inter-rater reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Bredenkamp N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8559057 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature