A new or second oral antibiotic prescription for UTI
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>1 in 8
women with uUTI experience treatment failure5
Defining Treatment Failure in UTIs
Although relapse and recurrence are defined in clinical practice guidelines, treatment failure is not formally defined6-8
In two retrospective cohort studies involving approximately 610,000 women diagnosed with UTIs in outpatient settings and prescribed empiric antibiotic therapy, treatment failure was defined by the occurrence of any of the following within 28 days of index date5,9:
Certain patient characteristics can increase risk of treatment failure:9
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