Society guideline links: Asymptomatic bacteriuria in adults

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Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use antimicrobials to treat bacteriuria in older adults unless specific urinary tract symptoms are present (2022)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in non-pregnant patients (2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use antimicrobials to treat asymptomatic bacteriuria in the elderly (2020)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Management of group B streptococcal bacteriuria in pregnancy (2018)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendations on screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy (2018)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the prevention of early-onset group B streptococcal disease in newborns (2020, reaffirmed 2022)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline for the management of asymptomatic bacteriuria, update (2019)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on asymptomatic bacteriuria in adults – Screening (2019)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Revised guidelines for the prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal disease (2010)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU): Guidelines on urological infections, update (2022)

●European Confederation of Laboratory Medicine (ECLM): European urinalysis guidelines (2000)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on urinary tract infections in adults (2015, updated 2023)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline for the management of suspected bacterial urinary tract infection in adult women (2020)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not perform surveillance urine cultures or treat bacteriuria in elderly patients in the absence of symptoms or signs of infection (2022)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not use antibiotics in asymptomatic bacteriuria (2016)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not use antimicrobials to treat bacteriuria in older adults where specific urinary tract symptoms are not present (2016)

●Australian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) Healthcare Infection Control Special Interest Group (HICSIG)/Australian Infection Control Association (AICA): Position statement on preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in patients (2011)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: About urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the elderly (2018)