Assessing the burden of outpatient urinary tract infections in the United States: analysis of nationwide ambulatory data (2016–2019)

2025/01/01 by Sonali D. Advani, Meghan E. Luck, Rose Chang +6 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies #Pelvic floor disorders treatments #Urinary Tract Infections Management

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/ash.2025.10045

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/04

Abstract

We conducted an analysis of a nationwide survey of US physician offices between 2016 and 2019 and calculated annualized prevalence rates of urinary tract infections (UTIs). During the 3-year study period, UTI was the most common infection in US physician offices, accounting for approximately 10 million annualized encounters.

Discussions

• We analyzed a nationionwide survey database of US physician offices (2016–2019) and found UTIs were the most common infection, with ~10 million annualized visits—highlighting their substantial burden [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

Related

• Urinary Tract Infection
• Incidence and risk factors of non–device-associated urinary tract infections in an acute-care hospital
• A Novel and Reproducible Urinary Diagnostic Framework Reduces Health Care and Antibiotic Utilization for Urinary Tract Infections
• Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections
• Implementation of Diagnostic Stewardship to Improve Urinary Tract Infection Antibiotic Use Across 3 Medical Centers