Impact of a Structured Urine Culture Form on Antibiotic Prescribing in an Indian Hospital

A prospective study at an 1800-bed tertiary-care hospital in India from March 2023 to March 2024 evaluated a structured urine-culture request form. The dataset includes 484 patients split between a test arm using the structured form and a control arm using routine forms, tracking outcomes like treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and guideline-concordant prescribing. The research was authored by Supreeta R Shettar and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the impact of structured clinical forms on antibiotic prescribing rates based on intervention arm.
• Analyzing the relationship between clinical context documentation and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria based on patient symptom status.
• Comparing rates of recurrent urinary tract infection and multidrug-resistant organism detection between intervention and control groups.
• Assessing guideline-compliant prescribing practices in urinary tract infection management based on the study's primary outcomes.

Strengths

• The study design includes a control group of 286 patients for comparison against a 198-patient test arm.
• Patient follow-up was conducted for one year, providing longitudinal outcome data.
• Results report specific, statistically significant differences in key metrics, such as a reduction in ASB treatment from 67.0% to 3.6%.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data originates from a single hospital in India, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Prospective, non-randomized interventional study.

Time Range

March 2023–March 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 10:16:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tertiary care hospital in India