Screening for and treating asymptomiatic bacteriuria not useful in women with diabetes.
Women with diabetes mellitus should not be screened or treated for asymptomatic bacteriuria. Unlike other clinical conditions in which screening for asymptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) has proved valuable (pregnancy, urologic surgery, renal transplantation), women with diabetes derive no meaningful benefit. Previous recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force neither recommended for or against screening or treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in diabetic women.
DeYoung
G Robert
GR
Advantage Health Physicians/Saint Mary's Mercy Medical Center and Grand Rapids Family Practice Residency, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. deyoungg@trinity-health.org
Ashmead
Steve
S