Urinary tract infection in primary health care in northern Sweden: II. Clinical presentation

Abstract

In a multipractice prevalence study of uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) in primary health care (PHC), with 355 episodes in 302 individuals during one month, 93% of the episodes occurred in females and Escherichia coli was the dominating causative organism (77% Most episodes of UTI (84% were acute and associated with lower (75% upper (5% or uncharacteristic symptoms (4% whereas 16% represented bacteriuria discovered by posttreatment controls. Urgency (77% and dysuria (70% were the most common symptoms. Loin pain was highly associated with upper UTI (88% but was reported also in 23% of episodes of lower UTI. Patient's delay differed between PHC centres and patient categories and was surprisingly long, four weeks in nine per cent and on average 8.4 days. © 1987 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.