Expanded Quantitative Urinary Culture (EQUC) vs Standard Culture (SUC) Techniques in the Clinical Care

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Conditions studied: Urinary Tract Infections

In brief

This purpose of this study is to see if expanded urine culture techniques used in the laboratory improve the clinical care of women over standard urine culture techniques.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03190421

Run by

Loyola University

People needed

225

Starts

2017-06-15

Expected to finish

2020-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-06-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• A "yes" answer to the screening question "do you feel you have a UTI"?
• Non-pregnant women ages 18 years or older
• Agreement to respond to a text or email question 7-10 days after treatment plan for their UTI (note: the treatment plan may include "no treatment").

You may not qualify if…

• Women currently on antibiotics
• Patients who cannot communicate or read in English
• Patients under the age of 18
• Pregnant patients
• Women with an indwelling catheter and intermittent self-catheterization
• Men
• Urine obtained via the "clean catch method" (i.e. voided urine)
• Women who refuse to be catheterized
• Women who cannot or will not agree to respond to an email or text message 7-10 days after treatment plan is initiated.

Where it is running

• Loyola University Medical Center — Maywood, Illinois, United States

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