Gaps in communication between different staff groups and older adult patients foster unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections in hospitals: a qualitative translation approach

BACKGROUND: Studies have reported large scale overprescribing of antibiotics for urinary tract infection (UTI) in hospitalised older adults. Older adults often have asymptomatic bacteriuria, and clinicians have been found to diagnose UTIs inappropriately based on vague symptoms and positive urinalys...

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Pubblicato in:Antimicrob Resist Infect Control
Autori principali: Saukko, Paula M., Oppenheim, Beryl A., Cooper, Mike, Rousham, Emily K.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683464/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404364
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-019-0587-2
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