Abstract:BackgroundEmpiric therapy is a mainstay of the inpatient management of urinary tract infections (UTIs), and the choice of empiric antibiotic is shaped by local epidemiology and patient risk factors and comorbidities. Pathogen identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) provide information that can guide adjustments in therapy, allowing de-escalation to more targeted, narrow-spectrum antibiotics.MethodsReal-world data (hospital billing claims) from 2017 was used to extract relevant informati… Show more
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