Can routine laboratory data guide empirical prescribing?

Can routine laboratory data guide empirical prescribing?

The susceptibility data for uropathogens recovered from routine urine samples received from the 80 practices served by Cambridge Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory were compared with the results from a sentinel group of five practices in the same locality, which agreed to submit urine samples...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical pathology 2004-06, Vol.57 (6), p.672-672
Hauptverfasser: Ludlam, H, Sule, O, Knapton, M, Abubakar, I
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics
Correspondence
Diagnostic Tests, Routine - statistics & numerical data
Drug Prescriptions - standards
Drug resistance
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
empirical prescribing
Humans
Laboratories
Practice Guidelines as Topic
routine laboratory data
Surveillance
urinary tract infection
Urinary Tract Infections - drug therapy
Urine
Urogenital system
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Zusammenfassung:The susceptibility data for uropathogens recovered from routine urine samples received from the 80 practices served by Cambridge Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory were compared with the results from a sentinel group of five practices in the same locality, which agreed to submit urine samples on all patients presenting with a clinical diagnosis of UTI within a three month period during 2002.
ISSN:0021-9746
1472-4146
DOI:10.1136/jcp.2003.012971