Improving Antibiotic Prescribing for Children With Urinary Tract Infection in Emergency and Urgent Care Settings

Conclusions A clinical pathway produced a significant and sustained increase in narrow-spectrum empiric antibiotic prescribing for pediatric UTI. Increased empiric cephalexin prescribing did not result in increased treatment failures or adverse patient outcomes. Future studies on implementing clinical pathways for children outside a pediatric hospital network are needed.
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research