The Emergency Ward Center in Oslo has the last two years used a questionnaire to identify patients who qualify for treatment of acute cystitis by the use of a delegation form. The aim of the study is to evaluate this practice, the primary objective being to evaluate if in a selected patient group the treatment outcome after identifying patients with probable acute cystitis by delegation form will be as good or better than the treatment received after a regular doctor's consultation. The planned study will also investigate which symptoms, signs and laboratory findings that coincide with significant bacteruria. The reference standard will be a microbiological culture of every patients urine.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
443
The study aims to compare the use of a delegation form to identify patient's who qualify for antibiotic treatment for suspected acute cystitis with a regular doctor's consultation. The key outcomes are lack of bacteruria and symptoms of UTI at followup times.
Legevakten i Oslo
Oslo, Oslo County, Norway
Number of patients who are clinically and bacteriologically free of symptoms of urinary tract infection.
The antibiotic treatment given will be of three days length.
Time frame: 6 days after start of treatment.
Number of patients who are clinically and symptomatologically free of symptoms.
The antibiotic treatment will be of three days length
Time frame: 10 days after start of treatment
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