Urine Culture : In the past, the diagnosis of UTI was based on a quantitative urine culture yielding greater than 100,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per milliliter of urine,termed ...
An analysis of Medicare claims data found a 60-fold increase in the use of unregulated rapid molecular diagnostic tests for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults from 2016 to 2023, ...