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Economic Burden Associated With Uncomplicated UTIs

Panelists discuss how treatment failure in uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) creates substantial economic burden through direct costs of additional health care visits, repeated diagnostic tests, and rescue medications alongside indirect costs from productivity losses, with implications including progression to complicated infections such as pyelonephritis, increased emergency department use, antimicrobial resistance development threatening broader public health, psychological impacts on patients, and strain on health care resources that could be mitigated through more effective initial treatment strategies.

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  • Explain the economic burden of treatment failure in uncomplicated UTI.
  • What implications does treatment failure have for patient outcomes and public health?
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