Letters, 9/13
We read with interest your article in the June issue, “To reduce UTIs, one lab takes a long, wide look.”
We strongly agree that there is inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for patients whose urine cultures are reported with organism identification and antibiotic susceptibilities but who do not have urinary tract infection. This is because many physicians send urine for culture inappropriately and then equate a positive result with infection; they believe that these laboratory tests are diagnostic for UTI.