Resources & Tools
- Review HMS site reports (hard copy distributed at collaborative wide meetings and live reports available daily via the HMS data entry
system) for the following: - Testing for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
- Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria with Antibiotics
- Types of Reports Available via HMS Registry: Hospital Specific, Provider Group Specific (i.e. hospitalist v. emergency room physician), or Provider Specific
- HMS Guideline
- UTI Pocket Card
- Consider modifying to poster size for posting in workrooms
- Educational Videos:
- Nurse Education Video: ASB vs UTI (Presentation by Dr. Lindsay Petty)
- Patient Education Video: Antibiotic Awareness - UTI, Cystitis, or Bladder Infection (Washington State Dept. of Health)
- Provider Education Video: The Dangers of Overtreating Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (B. Trautner)
- Provider Education Video: Appropriate Treatment for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (B. Trautner)
- Checklist for Appropriate Urine Culture Ordering
- Johns Hopkins Medicine: Urine Cultures One Pager
- Tools for assessing Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in patients with Altered Mental Status (AMS)
- Inpatient Algorithm Assessing for UTI in Patients with AMS
- Mody, L et al. Urinary Tract Infections in Older Women: A Clinical Review. JAMA 2014
- Example of hospital newsletter incorporating HMS Data #1 (Corewell Health - Previously Beaumont)
- Patient Education Materials:
- ASB Patient Flyer: Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection? How taking antibiotics when you don't need them can cause more harm than good (AHRQ)
- ASB Patient Flyer: Management of Urinary Tract Infections (Corewell Health - Previously Beaumont)
- Provider Education Materials:
- ASB Provider Flyer: Symptom-Free Pee - Let It Be Poster (Trinity Health Grand Rapids - Previously Mercy Health St. Mary's)
- ASB Provider Flyer: When it Comes to Urine Testing, Hold it. (Beaumont)
- ASB Provider Flyer: Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (AHRQ)
- CDC poster: Avoid Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
- Presentation by Dr. Valerie Vaughn at Infectious Diseases Week 2022: Reducing Unnecessary Antibiotic Treatment for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: Diagnostic vs. Antibiotic Stewardship
- Presentations (For HMS Members - Additional authentication may be required):
- Presentation by Lisa Dumkow (Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist, Mercy Health St. Mary's) at the November 12, 2019 HMS Collaborative Wide Meeting: Addressing the “Culture of Culturing” in Patients with Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
- Presentation by Dr. Anu Malani (Medical Director for Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship, St. Joseph Mercy Health System) at the November 14, 2017 HMS Collaborative Wide Meeting: Successful Interventions for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections