Point-of-care urine culture for managing urinary tract infection in primary care: a randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness

CC Butler, NA Francis, E Thomas-Jones… - … of General Practice, 2018 - bjgp.org
urine culture, used mainly for adjusting empirical antibiotic prescribing decisions for
uncomplicated urinary tract infection in primary care… Local laboratories were provided with a …

… point of care urine culture versus laboratory culture results: analysis from the four-country POETIC trial of diagnosis of uncomplicated urinary tract infection in primary …

S Hullegie, M Wootton, TJM Verheij… - … practice, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime and UTIs account for … primary care (1,2). The
majority of symptoms attributed to UTIs in otherwise healthy women presenting to primary care

Challenges in managing urinary tract infection and the potential of a point-of-care test guided care in primary care: an international qualitative study

L Brookes-Howell, E Thomas-Jones, J Bates… - BJGP open, 2019 - bjgpopen.org
… POC testing for UTI was carried out in the primary care (POETIC) trial. This was a pragmatic,
parallel two-arm, individually randomised controlled trial comparing the effects and costs of …

Point of care urine culture to inform appropriate antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in primary care (POETIC):: a randomised controlled trial …

M Moore, CCB Butler, NA Francis… - … of General Practice, 2018 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
… The point of care testing for urinary tract infection in primary care (POETIC) trial was a
pragmatic, … of bacteriuria and prediction of drug resistance in primary health care. Scand J Prim …

Clinical effectiveness of point of care tests for diagnosing urinary tract infection: a systematic review

E Tomlinson, HE Jones, R James, C Cooper… - … and Infection, 2023 - Elsevier
… Of the two studies that evaluated Flexicult Human, one recruited symptomatic patients
from primary care in Denmark,(18) and the other (POETIC trial) recruited women with …

… Microscopy to reduce antibiotic use in women with an uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection (MicUTI): protocol of a randomised controlled pilot trial in primary care

PK Kurotschka, G Borgulya, E Bucher, I Endrich… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… The multinational POETIC RCT found that POC urine culture and susceptibility testing were
… detection of bacteriuria (screening) in primary health care. Acta Pathologica Microbiologica …

Antibiotic consumption and time to recovery from uncomplicated urinary tract infection: secondary analysis of observational data from a point-of-care test trial

A Gadalla, H Wise, D Farewell, K Hughes, C Llor… - … of General Practice, 2022 - bjgp.org
… Data from the Point of care testing for urinary tract infection in primary care (POETIC) trial
were analysed. The trial ran from 2012 to 2014 and involved 43 general practices in England, …

Clinical accuracy of point-of-care urine culture in general practice

A Holm, G Cordoba, TM Sørensen… - … Primary Health Care, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in general practice and is the second leading reason
for antibiotic prescriptions [Citation1]. Patients with suspected UTI are usually treated with …

Point-of-care tests for pediatric urinary tract infections in general practice: a diagnostic accuracy study

HA Boon, T De Burghgraeve, JY Verbakel… - … Practice, 2022 - academic.oup.com
test accuracy of a selection of point-of-care tests for pediatric urinary tract infections in
general practice… (POETIC): protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost …

A review on urinary tract infections diagnostic methods: Laboratory-based and point-of-care approaches

M Santos, M Mariz, I Tiago, J Martins, S Alarico… - … of Pharmaceutical and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… types of infectious diseases is urinary tract infections (UTIs), being responsible for about
150–250 million cases per year, worldwide [1], [2] . Typically, these infections are caused by …