Antibacterial Activity in Urine

Kj, Harvey

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb116642.x

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“…Counting of remaining tablets after a complete course of therapy or personal interviews concerning regular intake of the medication have not been found to be reliable methods for checking compliance (2,7). Assay of antibacterial activity in urine, however, has been proved an adequate check that the drug has been taken (9). In the literature, the incidence of noncompliance with regimens of oral antibiotics varies between 1 % and 82% (2, 5 , 10).…”

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Treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Children

Daschner¹,

Marget²

1975

Acta Paediatrica

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Daschner, F. and Marget, W. (Division for Antimicrobial Therapy, Children's Hospital, University of Munich, BRD). Treatment of recurrent urinary tract infection in children. Acta Paediatr Scand, 64:105, 1975.Ehce none of the studies of long-term management of recurrent U~~M I -Y tract infections considered the possibility of patients' not taking medication, compliance with long-term antibiotic therapy was tested by urine check in 93 children with recurrent urinary tract infection. only 30 children (32.2%) took the prescribed drugs at regular intervals, 27 children (19.1%)did not take the antibiotics at all and 36 patients took the drugs irregularly, skipping one or two doses a day. The difference in infection rate between regular takers (3.9/year) and non-takers (7.2/yesr) and irregular takers (4.8/year) and non-takers was statfstically highly significant. Forgetfulness and negligence of the parents was found to be the main reason for not giving the child the medication. Treatment studies which show the advantage of one regimen over another or which try to define optimal duration of therapy should take particular care in evaluation compliance.

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