Patients’ characteristics
EMERGENCY
A total of 349 patients were enrolled in the study: 101 patients attending the Department of Emergency Medicine of Azienda Ospedaliera Sant’Andrea, rome, in the first trial, 248 attending the outpatient clinic at Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata, in the second trial. Of the patients enrolled in the first trial, antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed with both methods for 13 positive culture patients; among these, 7 (54%) were admitted with an ongoing antibiotic therapy (last antibiotic uptake within 12 hours before urine sampling) and the most frequently used antibiotics were metronidazole (43%), ciprofloxacin (29%), cefepime (14%), piperacillin-tazobactam (14%) and vancomycin (14%), used in combination only in one case. Of the patients enrolled in the second trial antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed with both methods for 84 culture-positive patients. Among these only 1 patient was admitted with an ongoing antibiotic therapy with ciprofloxacin (