Incidence rates and trends of childhood urinary tract infections and antibiotic prescribing: registry-based study in general practices (2000 to 2020).

ABSTRACT:

Background

To improve the management of childhood urinary tract infections, it is essential to understand the incidence rates, testing and treatment strategy.

Methods

A retrospective study using data from 45 to 104 general practices (2000 to 2020) in Flanders (Belgium). We calculated the incidence rates (per 1000 person-years) of cystitis, pyelonephritis, and lab-based urine tests per age (< 2, 2-4, 5-9 and 10-18 years)) and gender in children and performed an autoregressive time-series analysis and seasonality analysis. In children with UTI, we calculated the number of lab-based urine tests and antibiotic prescriptions per person-year and performed an autoregressive time-series analysis.

Results

There was a statistically significant increase in the number of UTI epis

SUBMITTER: Boon HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9301837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature