Infection Control Today - Urinary Tract Infections (UTIS)

Study Evaluates Antibiotic Option For Treating Bladder Infection in Women

Short-term use of the antibiotic cefpodoxime for the treatment of women with uncomplicated cystitis (bladder infection) did not meet criteria for noninferiority for achieving clinical cure compared with ciprofloxacin, a drug in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics for ...More

Yesterday

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National Quality Forum Endorses SSI and UTI Measures Developed by ACS

Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were ...More

2 days ago

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AACN Updates Clinical Guidelines to Prevent CAUTIs

Urinary tract infections account for nearly 40 percent of hospital-acquired infections in acute care hospitals, triggering increased hospital costs and higher patient morbidity and mortality rates. Compounding the toll of these infections, Medicaid, Medicare and many other ...More

4 weeks ago

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Bacterial Toxin Tied to Chronic Urinary Tract Infections

Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable immune responses. According to this new study, published in the Jan. 19, 2012, ...More

4 weeks ago

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Drug Clears Chronic Urinary Tract Infections in Mouse Model

An experimental treatment for urinary tract infections has easily passed its first test in animals, alleviating weeks-long infections in mice in as little as six hours. “This drug can block the spread of the bacteria that cause urinary tract infections far better than any ...More

November 17, 2011

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UTI Treatment in Nursing Homes Lacks Documented Efficacy, Researchers Say

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) -- including upper and lower symptomatic -- are the most common infections in nursing homes and prevention may reduce patient suffering, antibiotic use and resistance; however, researchers say agents used in preventing UTIs in nursing homes ...More

November 2, 2011

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Study Shows Cranberry Juice is Better Than Extracts at Fighting Bacterial Infections

With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries, whether in sauce or as juice, prevent urinary tract infections, people have wondered if there was an element of the berry that, if extracted and condensed, perhaps in pill form, would be as ...More

October 28, 2011

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Changing Diagnosis and Management of Initial UTIs in Young Children

Support for the technical report came from the AAP and the IU School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics. Aaron Carroll, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine, is also a co-author of the new study. Downs and Carroll are Regenstrief Institute ...More

August 30, 2011

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Antibiotic Appears More Effective Than Cranberry Capsules for Preventing UTIs

In premenopausal women who have repeated urinary tract infections (UTIs), the antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) appeared more effective than cranberry capsules for preventing recurrent infections, at the risk of contributing to antibiotic resistance, ...More

July 25, 2011

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Team Approach Reduces UTIs in Rehab Patients

Nurses, occupational and physical therapists, case managers and education staff, all working together at a 300-bed Nebraska rehabilitation hospital, have successfully implemented a team approach to dramatically reduce infections from urinary catheters, the most prevalent ...More

June 28, 2011

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