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Africa

• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Enterobacteriaceae Causing Urinary Tract Infections in Africa [2013]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Ciprofloxacin resistance in community and hospital-acquired urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis from African population [2025]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Antimicrobial Resistance Trends in Urinary Tract Infections in 6 African Countries [2026]

Asia

• International Journal of Urology
  • Summary of the UAA-AAUS guidelines for urinary tract infections [2018]

• Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • Catheter-associated urinary tract infection [2021]

Asia-Pacific

• Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control
  • APSIC guide for prevention of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) [2023]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • What to do about recurrent urinary tract infections: A review of evidence behind emerging therapies [2024]
  • Improving management of urinary tract infections in residential aged care facilities [2022]
  • Ins and outs of urinary catheters [2018]

• International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • Chlorhexidine versus saline in reducing the risk of catheter associated urinary tract infection: A cost-effectiveness analysis [2019]

• International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
  • Australian community pharmacists' views and preparedness to provide a UTI management service [2026]

• NSW Health
  • Insertion and Management of Urethral Catheters for Adult Patients

• Queensland Health
  • Urinary tract infection (UTI)

• SA Health
  • Urinary Tract Infections (adult): Empirical Treatment Clinical Guideline

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Materia Socio-Medica
  • The Connection Between Endourological Procedures and Occurrence of Urinary Infections [2014]

Brazil

• Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Estimating the savings of a national project to prevent healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units [2024]

Canada

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Cost-effectiveness and budget impact of the management of uncomplicated urinary tract infection by community pharmacists [2019]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Regional variation in the potentially inappropriate first-line use of fluoroquinolones in Canada as a key to antibiotic stewardship? A drug utilization review study [2021]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • When urine testing to rule out infection does more harm than good [2024]
  • Assessment of urinary incontinence in older adults, part 2: treatment [2024]
  • A tale of two bladders [2024]

• Canadian Pharmacists Journal
  • The assessment and management of urinary tract infections in adults: Guidelines for pharmacists [2017]

• Canadian Urological Association
  • Canadian Urological Association Best Practice Report: Catheter use [2020]

• Canadian Urological Association Journal
  • Could sublingual vaccination be a viable option for the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in Canada? A systematic review of the current literature and plans for the future [2020]

• Ontario Health
  • Intermittent Catheters for Chronic Urinary Retention: A Health Technology Assessment [2019]

Central Africa

• BioMed Research International
  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Klebsiella spp. Urinary Tract Infections in Central Africa [2025]

China

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • In vitro susceptibility of Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine samples obtained in mainland China to fosfomycin trometamol and other antibiotics: a 9-year surveillance study (2004–2012) [2014]

• International Journal of General Medicine
  • Trends in Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection in Mainland China from 1990 to 2019 [2021]

Denmark

• Annals of Medicine
  • Incidence and outcomes of patients admitted to emergency departments with urinary tract infections in Denmark: a retrospective cohort study [2025]

• European Geriatric Medicine
  • Use of antibiotics for urinary tract infections up to and after care home admission in Denmark: a nationwide study [2024]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Antibiotic treatment and antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infections among the older population in Denmark, 1999 to 2023 [2026]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Prescription of antibiotics for urinary tract infection in general practice in Denmark [2019]

Eritrea

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Patterns and trends of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial isolates from urine cultures in Eritrea, 2010 - 2021: a secondary dataset analysis [2026]

Ethiopia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • A national surveillance study on five-year trends in AMR of E. coli from urine samples in Ethiopia [2026]

• 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]

• PLOS One
  • Prevalence of urinary tract infections and risk factors among diabetic patients in Ethiopia, a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Europe

• European Association of Urology
  • European Association of Urology Guidelines on Urological Infections: Summary of the 2024 Guidelines [2024]
  • EAU Guidelines on Urological Infections

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

• International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
  • Rediscovering the value of fosfomycin trometamol in the era of antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review and expert opinion [2023]

• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Diagnosis and management of asymptomatic bacteriuria in kidney transplant recipients: a survey of current practice in Europe [2018]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Different recommendations for empiric first-choice antibiotic treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in Europe [2013]

Europe, United States

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • The effects of information technology interventions for optimizing antibiotic prescribing in urinary tract infections: a systematic review [2025]

• Journal of Clinical Urology
  • Urinary tract infection management – do the guidelines agree? [2018]

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

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Antibiotic prescriptions and risk factors for antimicrobial resistance in patients hospitalized with urinary tract infection: a matched case-control study using the French health insurance database (SNDS) [2021]

• French Journal of Urology
  • Preoperative urine culture in urology: Indications and management - The 2026 French guidelines [2026]
  • Short CIAFU recommendations on the screening and management of asymptomatic bacteriuria in immunocompromised patients [2025]

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

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Uncomplicated Bacterial Community- acquired Urinary Tract Infection in Adults [2017]
  • Urosepsis—Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment [2015]

• Urologia Internationalis
  • The 2017 Update of the German Clinical Guideline on Epidemiology, Diagnostics, Therapy, Prevention, and Management of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Patients: Part 1 [2018]

Ghana

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • High Resistance to Antibiotics Recommended in Standard Treatment Guidelines in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study of Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Patients with Urinary Tract Infections between 2017-2021 [2022]

High-income countries

• Annals of Pharmacotherapy
  • A Systematic Review of Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions to Improve Management of Bacteriuria in Hospitalized Adults [2023]

• BMJ Quality & Safety
  • Economic Evaluation of Quality Improvement Interventions to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Hospital Setting: A Systematic Review [2022]

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

• International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
  • Clinical management protocols for community pharmacist-led management of urinary tract infections: a review of the grey literature and quality appraisal [2024]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Implementation of antimicrobial stewardship interventions on prescribing rates for urinary tract infections in residential aged care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

Hong Kong

• Centre for Health Protection
  • Recommendations on Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection [2017]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Cefepime-enmetazobactam for complicated urinary tract infections: Redefining ESBL therapy [2026]

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Treatment of uncomplicated symptomatic urinary tract infections: Resistance patterns and misuse of antibiotics [2015]

International

• Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • Antimicrobial stewardship in long-term care facilities: A scoping review of prevalence, key concepts, and gaps in the management of suspected urinary tract infections [2026]

• BJU International
  • What is chronic urinary tract infection? A systematic review [2025]

• 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]

• BMC Urology
  • A scoping review of risk factors for urinary tract infections following renal transplantation [2026]
  • Materials-based incidence of urinary catheter associated urinary tract infections and the causative micro-organisms: systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• BMJ Open
  • Effectiveness of meatal cleaning in the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections and bacteriuria: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

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

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections [2023]

• Current Urology Reports
  • Association of Kidney Stones and Recurrent UTIs: the Chicken and Egg Situation. A Systematic Review of Literature [2022]

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Patients [2020]

• European Journal of Health Economics
  • Assessing the economic burden of complicated urinary tract infection: A systematic literature review [2026]

• European Journal of Medical Research
  • The prevalence of urinary tract infections in type 2 diabetic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Global prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]
  • Diagnostic tests for urinary tract infections and antimicrobial resistance-a reality check between diagnostic innovation and implementation: a critical narrative review [2026]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Disease burden and long-term trends of urinary tract infections: A worldwide report [2022]

• Implementation Science
  • Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators and strategic behavioural analysis of interventions [2020]

• Infection
  • Diagnosis and management of complicated urogenital schistosomiasis: a systematic review of the literature [2023]

• Inquiry
  • Incidence of Urinary Tract Infection Among Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

• International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
  • Antibiotic class comparisons for the treatment of pyelonephritis and complicated urinary tract infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

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

• International Society for Infectious Diseases
  • Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: A position paper of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2024 update [2025]
  • Guide to Infection Control in the Healthcare Setting: Recommendations for The Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections [2024]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • Quality appraisal of clinical guidelines for recurrent urinary tract infections using AGREE II: a systematic review [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics and Adults: A WikiGuidelines Group Consensus Statement [2024]

• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • Economic Burden of Community-Acquired Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infections: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2024]

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Global prevalence of nitrofurantoin-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Journal of Diabetes Research
  • Systematic Review of Literature Examining Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections in Diabetes [2022]

• Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • A global perspective on improving patient care in uncomplicated urinary tract infection: expert consensus and practical guidance [2022]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Global, regional, and national lifetime probabilities of urinary tract infections and interstitial nephritis from 1990 to 2021 [2025]

• Military Medical Research
  • Epidemiological trends of urinary tract infections, urolithiasis and benign prostatic hyperplasia in 203 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019 [2021]

• Pathogens
  • Current Evidence on Safety, Efficacy and Efficiency of Sublingual Vaccine Uromune® in Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: A Literature Review [2025]

• Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
  • Effective interventions to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a systematic review [2025]
  • An integrative review on treatment guidelines for complicated urinary tract infections: a synthesis of evidence-based recommendations [2025]

• Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
  • Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection: implementation strategies of international guidelines [2016]

• Scientific Reports
  • Epidemiological trends and predictions of urinary tract infections in the global burden of disease study 2021 [2025]

Iran

• International Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Pattern of Antibacterial Resistance in Urinary Tract Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2019]

• Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology of Multidrug Resistant Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Iran: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2017]

Ireland

• EuroSurveillance
  • A comparative analysis of prophylactic antimicrobial use in long-term care facilities in Ireland, 2013 and 2016 [2019]

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Urinary Catheters

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) in Residential Care Facilities/Nursing Homes
  • Position Statements Dipstick Urinalysis for UTIs in Adults
  • Deprescribing UTI prophylaxis
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CA-UTI)
  • Acute Pyelonephritis

Italy

• Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia
  • UrOP position paper in support of the new classification of urinary tract infections: from "uncomplicated/complicated" to localized/systemic" [2025]

Japan

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Prevalence and appropriateness of indwelling urinary catheters in Japanese hospital wards: a multicenter point prevalence study [2022]
  • Hospitalization for urinary tract infections in Japan, 2010–2015: a retrospective study using a national inpatient database [2021]

• International Journal of Urology
  • Essential Japanese guidelines for the prevention of perioperative infections in the urological field: 2015 edition [2016]

• Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • JAID/JSC Guidelines for Clinical Management of Infectious Disease 2015 - Urinary tract infection/male genital infection [2017]
  • Japanese guideline for clinical research of antimicrobial agents on urogenital infections: Second edition [2016]

• Journal of Medical Economics
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing as a point of care for patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infection in Japan [2026]

Latin America

• Therapeutic Advances in Urology
  • Prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections: bridging the gap between clinical practice and guidelines in Latin America [2019]

Lebanon

• BMJ Open Quality
  • Compliance to international guidelines and rational use of antibiotics in urinary tract infections in a country without national guidance: a cross-sectional study [2024]

• Frontiers in Medicine
  • Escherichia coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infections of Lebanese Patients between 2005 and 2012: Epidemiology and Profiles of Resistance [2015]

Malawi

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Trends and patterns of antimicrobial resistance among common pathogens isolated from adult bloodstream and urinary tract infections in public health facilities in Malawi, 2020-2024 [2025]

Netherlands

• Antibiotics
  • Guideline Adherence of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Could Be Improved among General Practitioners in The Netherlands: A Survey Study [2022]

• BMC Primary Care
  • Adherence to and usefulness of the national treatment guideline for urinary tract infections (UTI) in a risk area [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • New methodology to assess the excess burden of antibiotic resistance using country-specific parameters: a case study regarding E. coli urinary tract infections [2023]
  • Trends of prescribing antimicrobial drugs for urinary tract infections in primary care in the Netherlands: a population-based cohort study [2019]

• Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Urinary Tract Infection Guideline Adherence in a Dutch Sentinel Nursing Home Surveillance Network [2024]

• PLOS One
  • Recommendations for the Empirical Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections Using Surveillance Data on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Netherlands [2014]

• Primary Health Care Research & Development
  • Urine cultures and antibiotics for urinary tract infections in Dutch general practice [2018]

New Zealand

• Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand
  • Urinary tract infections (UTIs) – an overview of lower UTI management in adults [2025]
  • The appropriate requesting of laboratory urinalysis in patients with a suspected UTI [2025]

Norway

• BMC Family Practice
  • Consultations and antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in Norwegian primary care 2006–2015, a registry-based study [2021]

• BMC Geriatrics
  • Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacteria causing urinary tract infections in the elderly living in nursing homes versus the elderly living at home: an observational study [2015]

Portugal

• BioMed Research International
  • Incidence and Diversity of Antimicrobial Multidrug Resistance Profiles of Uropathogenic Bacteria [2015]

Republic of Korea

• Infection & Chemotherapy
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Antibiotic Treatment of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections [2018]

• Journal of Hospital Infection
  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections at intensive care units in South Korea: data from the Korean National Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance System (KONIS) [2023]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Impact of Infection Prevention Programs on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Analyzed in Multicenter Study [2024]
  • Susceptibility of Escherichia coli from Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infection to Fosfomycin, Nitrofurantoin, and Temocillin in Korea [2014]

Saudi Arabia

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • Preventive Measures and Management of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adult Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia [2021]

• Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia
  • Urinary Tract Infection management protocol [2021]

Serbia

• Serbian Archives of Medicine
  • National clinical practise guidelines - prevention and treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections [2024]

Singapore

• Agency for Care Effectiveness
  • Urinary tract infections [2023]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Urinary tract infections in adults [2016]

Spain

• Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
  • Executive summary of the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection: Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (SEIMC) [2017]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Time Trends in Spain from 2001 to 2018 in the Incidence and Outcomes of Hospitalization for Urinary Tract Infections in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [2020]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Trends in Incidence and Outcomes of Hospitalizations for Urinary Tract Infection among Older People in Spain (2001–2018) [2021]

• PLOS One
  • Population-based epidemiological analysis of acute pyelonephritis and antibiotic prescription in Spain (2009-2018) [2025]
  • Trends in hospitalisation for urinary tract infection in adults aged 18-65 by sex in Spain: 2000 to 2015 [2024]
  • Trends in urinary tract infection hospitalization in older adults in Spain from 2000-2015 [2021]

• Revista Española de Quimioterapia
  • Clinical management of cUTI, cIAI, and HABP/VABP attributable to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections in Spain [2021]

Sweden

• PLOS One
  • Increased adherence to treatment guidelines in patients with urinary tract infection in primary care: A retrospective study [2019]

Switzerland

• American Journal of Infection Control
  • Eight-year sustainability of a successful intervention to prevent urinary tract infection: A mixed-methods study [2016]

• BMC Family Practice
  • Treatment of urinary tract infections in Swiss primary care: quality and determinants of antibiotic prescribing [2020]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Exploring the real-world management of catheter-associated urinary tract infections by Swiss general practitioners and urologists: insights from an online survey [2024]

Taiwan

• Internal Medicine
  • Outcome of Nonadherence to Antimicrobial Treatment Guidelines in Ambulatory Patients with Acute Cystitis: A Nationwide Population-based Study [2014]

• Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
  • Longitudinal molecular epidemiology of ceftriaxone-resistant enterobacterales in intra-abdominal and urinary tract infections: A decade-long SMART surveillance study in Taiwan (2009-2019) [2026]

United Arab Emirates

• Ministry of Health and Prevention
  • National Guidelines on the Empiric Antibiotic Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections [2021]

United Kingdom

• BMJ
  • Antibiotic management of urinary tract infection in elderly patients in primary care and its association with bloodstream infections and all cause mortality: population based cohort study [2019]

• 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]
  • Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing for urinary tract infections in secondary care in England: a cost-effectiveness analysis [2024]

• British Association of Urological Surgeons
  • British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and Nurses (BAUN) consensus document: management of the complications of long-term indwelling catheters [2021]

• British Journal of Hospital Medicine
  • Non-Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection: A Narrative Review & Clinical Guide for Primary and Hospital Care [2026]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Lower Urinary Tract Infections: Management, Outcomes and Risk Factors for Antibiotic Re-prescription in Primary Care [2019]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Comparing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of various washout policies in preventing catheter associated complications in adults living with long-term catheters: synopsis of the CATHETER II RCT [2026]
  • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to reduce antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review and conceptual economic model [2024]
  • Methenamine hippurate compared with antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in women: the ALTAR non-inferiority RCT [2022]
  • Continuous low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent urinary tract infection in adults who perform clean intermittent self-catheterisation: the AnTIC RCT [2018]

• HSC Public Health Agency
  • Decision aid for diagnosis and management of suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) in older people [2017]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Urinary tract infection (recurrent): antimicrobial prescribing [2024]
  • Urinary tract infections in adults [2023]
  • Point-of-care tests for urinary tract infections to improve antimicrobial prescribing: early value assessment [2023]
  • UroShield for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections [2022]
  • Urinary tract infection (lower): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
  • Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
  • Pyelonephritis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]
  • Complicated urinary tract infections: ceftolozane/tazobactam [2016]
  • Urinary tract infection

• NHS Scotland
  • Urinary tract infections (UTIs)

• NHS Wales
  • Primary Care Empirical Urinary Tract Infection Treatment Guidelines [2018]

• PLOS One
  • Incidence and antibiotic prescribing for clinically diagnosed urinary tract infection in older adults in UK primary care, 2004-2014 [2018]

• Public Health England
  • Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections

• Right Decisions
  • Urinary tract (UTI)
  • Diagnosis of UTI (Guidelines)
  • Acute urinary tract infection – catheter-associated

• 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

• Academic Emergency Medicine
  • High prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant UTI among US emergency department patients diagnosed with urinary tract infection, 2018-2020 [2022]

• 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]
  • Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care [2017]
  • Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide [2015]
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
  • Best Practices in Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections

• American College of Radiology
  • Acute Pyelonephritis

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

• American Journal of Infection Control
  • Promoting prevention through meaningful measures: Improving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance Definitions [2015]
  • Adoption of policies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in United States intensive care units [2012]

• American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Urinary Tract Infections: Core Curriculum 2024 [2024]

• 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]

• American Urological Association
  • Catheter-associated urinary tract infections: definitions and significance in the urologic patient [2014]
  • Medical Student Curriculum: Adult UTI

• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • New Perspectives on Antimicrobial Agents: Pivmecillinam [2025]

• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
  • Guide to Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections [2025]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • A multicenter analysis of trends in resistance in urinary Enterobacterales isolates from ambulatory patients in the United States: 2011-2020 [2022]
  • Burden of illness in US hospitals due to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative urinary tract infections in patients with or without bacteraemia [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Urinary Tract Infection (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [CAUTI] and Non-Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]) and Other Urinary System Infection [USI]) Events [2026]
  • Indwelling Urinary Catheter Culture Stewardship
  • Clinical Safety: Preventing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs)
  • Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection Basics
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Prevention Guideline

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

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • A Systematic Review of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measurement in Patients With Complicated Urinary Tract Infections [2025]
  • US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Benefit-Risk Considerations for Cefiderocol (Fetroja®) [2021]
  • Enhancing Resident Safety by Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infection: A National Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Homes [2015]

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

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: Developing Drugs for Treatment Guidance for Industry [2018]

• Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
  • What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Results from a national survey in the United States [2023]
  • Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update [2023]
  • Inappropriate testing for urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients: an opportunity for improvement [2013]
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection: Does Changing the Definition Change Quality? [2013]

• Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • IDSA 2025 Guideline Update on Complicated Urinary Tract Infections [2025]
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America [2019]
  • Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America [2010]

• International Journal of Clinical Practice
  • A healthy bladder: a consensus statement [2011]

• JAMA Internal Medicine
  • A National Implementation Project to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Nursing Home Residents [2017]

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Nitrofurantoin retains antimicrobial activity against multidrug-resistant urinary Escherichia coli from US outpatients [2014]

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

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Direct to Consumer Telemedicine [2020]

• Nature Reviews Urology
  • CAUTIon - not all UTIs are the same [2025]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • A Program to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Acute Care [2016]

• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Descriptive Epidemiology and Outcomes of Hospitalizations With Complicated Urinary Tract Infections in the United States, 2018 [2022]
  • Assessment of Inappropriate Antibiotic Use and Guideline Adherence for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections [2018]

• Rhode Island Medical Journal
  • To Treat or Not to Treat: UTI or Bacteriuria? [2020]

• Spinal Cord Series and Cases
  • When guidelines conflict: patient safety, quality of life, and CAUTI reduction in patients with spinal cord injury [2019]

• StatPearls
  • Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections

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

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Target product profiles for oral therapy of urinary tract infections [2020]

Yemen

• Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • Healthcare workers' compliance with the catheter associated urinary tract infection prevention guidelines: an observational study in Yemen [2023]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Urinary tract infections in women
  • Urinary tract infections in men
  • Urinary tract infections in children