A urinalysis to urine culture reflex protocol results in high rates of asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment

2025/01/01 by Dina Zheng, Lina Hamid, Morgan L Bixby +1 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Urinary Tract Infections Management #Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/ash.2025.10130

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

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• From @ebhirsch.bsky.social; @morgan-bixby.bsky.social: Of 3072 urinalysis (UA) orders evaluated, only 30.1% reflexed to urine culture (UC). Less than half of UC reflexes resulted with observed high r [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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