Summary: Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is urinary urgency, usually accompanied by frequency and nocturia, with or without urgency urinary incontinence, in the absence of urinary tract infection. For the treatment of OAB; pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods are available. The availability and the continuation rate of pharmacological treatments are lower than non-pharmacological treatments du...
Summary: Recently more advanced techniques, including Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) are available to detect bacteria in urine based on bacterial genomes. Comparing to traditional culture, these techniques have more sensitivity and could potentially be of a great help in patients with Colony Count of less than 10,000 and more than zero.
Summary: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are commonly encountered in children, with 7% diagnosed with at least one UTI by the age of 19 years. The evidence for treatment of uncomplicated UTI is clear; oral antibiotics are as good as intravenous (IV) antibiotics, usually for a total of 7 days. Complicated UTIs (cUTIs) on the other hand, are common reasons for hospital admissions for IV antibiotics and consti...
Summary: This is the first ever comparative effectiveness study of an antibiotic-sparing novel self-management intervention to prevent complicated urinary tract infection (UTI).
Summary: In the available literature, we lack the risk categorization of infectious complications after RIRS with subsequent recommendation as regard to AP in different risk patients. Therefore we are planning to investigate the optimal protocol for AP prior to RIRS in high-risk population through comparing the enhanced regimen (2days) vs. the extended regimen (7 days) in a randomized controlled trial (RCT...
Summary: Antimicrobial prophylactic treatment of recurrent UTI is limited by emerging resistance, antibiotic allergies and intolerances. Intravesical aminoglycoside instillations (IAI) have been shown to reduce recurrence rate, without a short-term decline in kidney function or hearing. Thus far, treatment satisfaction has not yet been assessed, while this may play an important role in treatment adherence ...
Summary: This study is set up by an international core group consisting of infectious disease specialists, geriatricians, urologists, microbiologists, emergency physicians and primary care physicians to develop a consensus-based research definition of urinary tract infections. The absence of such a reference standard leads to misclassification bias and heterogeneity between studies making progress in the f...
Summary: Antimicrobial-resistant and healthcare-associated pathogens are a global health threat. The goals of antimicrobial stewardship are to minimize unnecessary and inappropriate antimicrobial use as a means to combat antimicrobial resistance. Previously, the investigators implemented a Videoconference Antimicrobial Stewardship Team (VAST) at 2 VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), using telehealth to connect cli...
Summary: Objective of the study is to assess the safety and efficacy of CO2 removal by the multiECCO2R (CO2 Removal System) on the multiFiltrate/multiFiltrate Pro in veno-venous extracorporeal circulation during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in patients presenting with hypercapnia due to acute lung failure and acute kidney injury.
Summary: This study is to be conducted in community pharmacies. It involves the use of trained mystery patients to evaluate community pharmacists at baseline and post intervention. The pharmacists will be divided into control and intervention groups using computer generated codes. Those in the intervention group will receive an online training by clinical pharmacists. The training will employ the use of di...
Summary: Schistosomiasis is a chronic infection endemic in 74 tropical and sub-tropical countries. Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest burden (90%) of schistosomiasis which caused by both Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium. The prevalence of Schistosomiasis should be assessed to control of the infection. This is usually achieved through surveys based on the use of traditional parasitologica...
Summary: Coronavirus disease 2019 is a novel viral disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 virus. The original cases occurred in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and rapidly spread to other areas worldwide, constituting a pandemic with unimaginable health and economic consequences. the World Health Organization elevated the disease to the category of a pandemic on March 11, 2020...