Urinary tract infection.

Abstract

The University of Michigan Health System Urinary Tract Infection CPG provides a summary of evidence-based recommendations on the treatment of UTIs in a format that can easily applied in practice. The authors include a statement of the importance of clinical judgement in the application of the recommendations and the recognition that other treatment approaches may be appropriate. The panel of authors includes physicians of various specialties, an ambulatory care nurse, and a medical education specialist. While the specialties of general and family medicine, OB/GYN, and infectious medicine are represented, there is no urologist or nephrologist listed on the panel. The CPG includes a brief annotated bibliography, summarizing six of the articles considered in the guideline's development. There is no further extended list of references included in the content. The CPG is limited to the treatment of adult women, although there is no specific age cited at which the guideline would begin to apply. It provides the reader with ideas for not only managing women who present to the clinic with symptoms consistent with a UTI, but also ideas for not only managing women who patient self-treatment strategies to minimize the cost associated with recurrent infections. Health care professionals interested in using the CPG in practice are encouraged to obtain and review a full-copy. It is available on the World Wide Web ate cme.medumich.edu.pdf/guideline/UTI.pdf.