Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Duration in Young Infants With Bacteremic Urinary Tract Infections
Desai S, Aronson PL, Shabanova V, Neuman MI, Balamuth F, Pruitt CM, DePorre AG, Nigrovic LE, Rooholamini SN, Wang ME, Marble RD, Williams DJ, Sartori L, Leazer RC, Mitchell C, Shah SS. Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Duration in Young Infants With Bacteremic Urinary Tract Infections. Pediatrics 2019, 144: e20183844. PMID: 31431480, PMCID: PMC6855812, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-3844.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBacteremic urinary tract infectionUrinary tract infectionAntibiotic durationParenteral antibioticsTract infectionsFrequent recurrent urinary tract infectionsYoung infantsMulticenter retrospective cohort studyRecurrent urinary tract infectionsAntibiotic therapy durationShort-course groupRetrospective cohort studyLong-course therapyMarginal structural modelsHospital reutilizationUTI recurrenceOral antibioticsCohort studyParenteral therapyPatient characteristicsTherapy durationUrine cultureChildren's HospitalWeighted populationEarly conversion