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Abstracts in Urgent Care – September 2023

How Long Should We Prescribe Antibiotics for Pediatric UTI? Take-Home Point: Children receiving 5 days of antibiotics for urinary tract infection (UTI) had a higher rate of treatment failure that children receiving 10-day courses. However, absolute treatment failure rates were low in both groups. Citation: Zaoutis T, Shaikh N, Fisher B, et. al. Short-Course Therapy for Urinary Tract Infections in Children: The SCOUT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Jun 26; e231979. Relevance: There have …

Abstracts in Urgent Care – May 2016

SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Results Unavailable for 71% of Trials Key point: Many research findings are not easily available to clinicians. Citation: Chen Ruijun, Desai NR, Ross JS, et al. Publication and reporting of clinical trial results: cross sectional analyis across academic medical centers BMJ. 2016;352:i637. Researchers investigated the amount of clinical trial findings at academic medical centers that are not published and thus not easily available to clinicians. In a cross-sectional analysis of academic …