Urgent Bite 20 - Antibiotics for UTI in the elderly

Welcome to this weeks Urgent Bite.  Today we look at a recent open access paper in the BMJ that looked at the effect immediate antibiotics had on bloodstream infections and all cause mortality in the elderly with UTI, compared to no antibiotics or delayed antibiotics.  It is worth reading.

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l525.long

 

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