Meeting
Abstract Number: 271
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) account for more than 100,000 inpatient admissions yearly. IDSA guidelines recommend Nitrofurantoin as first line therapy and recent FDA guidelines recommend against Fluoroquinolone (FQ) use due their side effects and growing resistance; however, Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim (Bactrim) and Ciprofloxacin are still commonly used to treat uncomplicated UTIs. Therefore we hypothesized that […]