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Christine Ervin, RN, MPH; Anthony L. Komaroff, MD; Theodore M. Pass, PhD
Beth Israel Hospital Boston

JAMA. 1980;243(4):330-331.

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To the Editor.—

We want to commend Adatto et al (241:2525, 1979) on their article "Behavioral Factors and Urinary Tract Infection." We conducted a more limited, but similar, study in a different patient population and made somewhat different observations.

We prospectively studied adult women seeking care for symptoms of dysuria, frequency, or urgency in four large ambulatory care centers in New England. Our study group included 23 women with symptoms of dysuria, urinary frequency or urgency, and more than 10⁵ colonies of a single pathogenic organism per milliliter of a clean-catch, midstream urine specimen. We obtained explicit information on self-care behavior from each patient using a self-administered questionnaire and nurse interview.

Our control group was composed of 64 ambulatory patients from two of the four study sites, who were seeking care for problems unrelated to urinary or vaginal infection and had had no more than one urinary tract infection . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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