The management of urinary infections; what have we learned in the past decade?

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Abstract

User-friendly, cost-effective practices to manage urinary infection should become routine. The vast majority of inflections are relatively easy to treat and many of these can be prevented with appropriate interventions. Additional research is urgently needed to compare various clinical strategies and determine which is most acceptable to patients at a reasonable cost with satisfactory health outcomes.

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