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Judicious Antibiotic Use in Long Term Care Facilities Program

Urinary Tract Infections Module
1: Introduction	2: Epidemiology	3: Risk Factors	4: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
5: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: Treatment	6: Pyuria	7: Diagnosis (part 1)	8: Diagnosis (part 2)
9: Diagnosis (part 3)	10: Treatment	11: Summary	12: Quiz

Urinary Tract Infection: Summary

Summary:

Urinary tract infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in residents of long-term care facilities

Asymptomatic bacteriuria is very common in residents of long-term care facilities.

Asymptomatic bacteriuria does not require antibiotic therapy in most cases.

Most patients with clinical urinary tract infection will have localizing symptoms.

Only about 10% of non-catheterized febrile patients without localizing urinary symptoms will have UTI as the cause of their fever.

This completes this self-study module.

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