Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Abstracts in Urgent Care – October 2026

Guideline for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Women Take Home Point: This guideline recommends that urinalysis with symptoms should be used to diagnose recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI) and emphasizes culture-guided antibiotic therapy, supportive care, and preventative measures to reduce antimicrobial resistance and overtreatment. Citation: Ackerman A, Bradley M, D’Anci K, et al. Updates to recurrent uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women: AUA/CUA/SUFU guideline (2025). J Urol. 2026;215(1):3–12. Relevance: Understanding of female rUTI has evolved …

Urgent Care Antibiotic Stewardship Produces Positive Results

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in urgent care settings appear to produce practice improvement, according to a new systematic review published in Cureus. Researchers evaluated literature reporting on ASPs specifically in urgent care settings and found that 11 of 12 completed studies demonstrated reduced antimicrobial prescribing or improved appropriateness in prescribing patterns among clinicians. Education and guideline-based strategies produced some of the largest improvements. For example, an intervention that used clinical pathway pocket-card algorithms to guide …

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