UTI Reference Standard: Delphi Method (ORACLE)

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urinary Tract Infections

Treatments: Other: Delphi-procedure consisting of four survey rounds

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05365906

nWMODIV2_2022007

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is set up by an international core group consisting of infectious disease specialists, geriatricians, urologists, microbiologists, emergency physicians and primary care physicians to develop a consensus-based research definition of urinary tract infections. The absence of such a reference standard leads to misclassification bias and heterogeneity between studies making progress in the field of UTI difficult, for example with much needed near patient diagnostic tests.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical specialist working in the following fields: infectious diseases, urology, geriatric medicine, acute/emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, microbiology, and primary care
• Clinical and/or research experience with urinary tract infections

Exclusion criteria

• Residency not completed yet
• Working in a different field than described above