Descriptive epidemiology and outcomes of emergency department visits with complicated urinary tract infections in the United States, 2016-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There are >1 million emergency department visits and 100,000 admissions with urinary tract infection (UTI) annually in the United States. A fraction of total UTI volume, complicated (cUTI) costs the health care system over $3.5 billion per year. We evaluated the contemporary annual burden of emergency department (ED) visits with cUTI.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional multicenter study within the National Emergency Department database, a 20% stratified sample of all US hospital-based EDs, 2016-2018, to explore characteristics of visits with a cUTI. We compared cUTI as the principal (PD) versus secondary diagnosis (non-PD). We applied survey methods to develop national estimates.

Results

Among 2,379,448 ED cUTI visits (44.8% PD), 40.1% were female (45.1%

SUBMITTER: Zilberberg MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8931190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature