Urinary tract infections – Related resources
03.06.2016 • Sonuncu dəyişiklik 22.03.2010
Editors
Cochrane reviews
Short course antibiotic treatment may have similar effect as long course treatment of uncomplicated symptomatic lower UTI in elderly women. Single dose antibiotic treatment may be less effective but may be better accepted by the patients than longer treatments .
- There are probably no significant differences in effectiveness between different antibiotics used for urinary tract infections during pregnancy .
Different quinolones have similar clinical efficacy for acute cystitis in women but some differences in safety .
- Oral antibiotic therapy seems to be as effective as parenteral or initial parenteral therapy for severe urinary tract infection, but because of extremely heterogeneous study populations no conclusions can be made in specific patient groups .
Literature
Clinical practice reviews
- Peleg AY, Hooper DC. Hospital-acquired infections due to gram-negative bacteria. N Engl J Med 2010 May 13;362(19):1804-13.
- Little P, Moore MV, Turner S, Rumsby K, Warner G, Lowes JA, Smith H, Hawke C, Leydon G, Arscott A, Turner D, Mullee M. Effectiveness of five different approaches in management of urinary tract infection: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2010 Feb 5;340():c199.