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Canada

• BCGuidelines
  • Urinary Tract Infections in the Primary Care Setting – Investigation

• Canadian Family Physician
  • When urine testing to rule out infection does more harm than good [2024]

Ethiopia

• BMC Urology
  • Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria in urinary tract infections in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

Europe

• European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
  • The EFLM European Urinalysis Guideline 2023 [2024]

Finland

• EuroSurveillance
  • Increasing proportions of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing isolates among Escherichia coli from urine and bloodstream infections: results from a nationwide surveillance network, Finland, 2008 to 2019 [2023]

France

• French Journal of Urology
  • Preoperative urine culture in urology: Indications and management - The 2026 French guidelines [2026]

• Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses
  • Diagnostic strategies for urinary tract infections in French general practice [2017]

High-income countries

• European Urology Focus
  • Towards a Reference Standard Definition of Urinary Tract Infection for Research [2025]

International

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Exploring the clinical and diagnostic value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for urinary tract infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Clinical effectiveness of point of care tests for diagnosing urinary tract infection: a systematic review [2024]

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • A Review on the Current and Future State of Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics [2025]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Position Statements Dipstick Urinalysis for UTIs in Adults

United Kingdom

• BMJ Open
  • Trends in urine sampling rates of general practice patients with suspected lower urinary tract infections in England, 2015-2022: a population-based study [2024]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to reduce antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review and conceptual economic model [2024]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to improve antimicrobial prescribing: early value assessment [2023]

• Right Decisions
  • Diagnosis of UTI (Guidelines)

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Investigation of urine [2025]
  • Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care
  • Diagnosis of urinary tract infections: quick reference tools for primary care

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2019]

• American College of Radiology
  • Acute Pyelonephritis

• American Family Physician
  • Office-Based Urinalysis: A Comprehensive Review [2022]

• American Society for Microbiology
  • Effectiveness of Preanalytic Practices on Contamination and Diagnostic Accuracy of Urine Cultures: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2015]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • Diagnostic stewardship for urinary tract infection: A snapshot of the expert guidance [2022]

• Diagnostics
  • A New Gold Rush: A Review of Current and Developing Diagnostic Tools for Urinary Tract Infections [2021]

• Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
  • Inappropriate testing for urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients: an opportunity for improvement [2013]

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Novel technologies for the diagnosis of urinary tract infections [2025]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Screening [2019]

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