Urinary Tract Infection in Long-Term-Care Facility Residents

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Abstract

Urinary tract infection is the most frequent bacterial infection in residents of long-term-care facilities. Most infections are asymptomatic, with a remarkable prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria of 15%-50% among all residents. The major reasons for this high prevalence are chronic comorbid illnesses with neurogenic bladder and interventions to manage incontinence. Prospective, randomized, comparative trials of therapy and no therapy for asymptomatic bacteriuria among nursing home residents have repeatedly documented that antimicrobial treatment had no benefits. However, there is substantial diagnostic uncertainty in determining whether an individual with a positive urine culture has symptomatic or asymptomatic infection when there is clinical deterioration and there are no localized findings. In the noncatheterized resident, urinary infection is an infrequent source of fever but may not be definitively excluded. The use of antimicrobials for treatment of urinary infection is part of the larger concern about appropriate antimicrobial use in long-term-care facilities and the impacts of the selective pressure of antimicrobials on colonization and infection with resistant organisms.

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