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Short versus standard duration oral antibiotic therapy for acute urinary tract infection in children

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2003
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Title
Short versus standard duration oral antibiotic therapy for acute urinary tract infection in children
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2003
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd003966
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Mini Michael, Elisabeth M Hodson, Jonathan C Craig, Sarah Martin, Virginia A Moyer

Abstract

The optimal duration of oral antibiotic therapy for urinary tract infection (UTI) in children has not been determined. A number of studies have compared single dose therapy to standard therapy for UTI, with mixed results. A course of antibiotics longer than a single dose but shorter than the usual 7-10 days might decrease the relapse rate and still provide some of the benefits of a shortened course of antibiotics. The objective of this review was to assess the benefits and harms of short-course (2-4 days) compared to standard duration (7-14 days) oral antibiotic treatment for acute UTI in children. We searched the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2002) MEDLINE (1966 - September 2002) and EMBASE (1988 -September 2002) without language restriction. Randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials comparing short-term (2-4 days) with standard (7-14 days) oral antibiotic therapy were selected if they studied children aged three months to 18 years with culture proven UTI. Two reviewers independently assessed trial quality and extracted data. Statistical analyses were performed using the random effects model and the results expressed as relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Ten trials were identified in which 652 children with lower tract UTI were evaluated. There was no significant difference in the frequency of positive urine cultures between the short (2-4 days) and standard duration oral antibiotic therapy (7-14 days) for UTI in children at 0-10 days after treatment (eight studies: RR 1.06; 95% CI 0.64 to 1.76) and at one to 15 months after treatment (10 studies: RR 0.95; 95% CI 0.70 to 1.29). There was no significant difference between short and standard duration therapy in the development of resistant organisms in UTI at the end of treatment (one study: RR 0.57, 95% CI 0.32 to 1.01) or in recurrent UTI (three studies: RR 0.39, 95% CI 0.12 to 1.29). A 2-4 day course of oral antibiotics appears to be as effective as 7-14 days in eradicating lower tract UTI in children.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 122 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 19 15%
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 14 11%
Other 10 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 36 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 54 43%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 2%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 41 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 October 2023.
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#1,800,092
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#3,857
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#3,548
of 138,219 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#11
of 55 outputs
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