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Table 1 Urine cultures in patients at the out-of-hours GP centres

From: Workload, diagnostic work-up and treatment of urinary tract infections in adults during out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective cohort study

 

Indication (%)

No indication (%)

Total number of patients

1552 (29.8)

3663 (70.2)

Culture not ordered

1392 (89.7)

3526 (96.3)

Culture ordered

127 (8.2)

102 (2.8)

Referred to own GP

22 (1.4)

22 (0.6)

Ordered by own GP

13 (0.7)

11 (0.4)

  1. Patients referred to the emergency department or patients who already received antibiotics from their own GP were excluded from this analysis