Comparison microbiological indices in spontaneous voided urine or urine obtained from incontinence material

This dataset belongs to the PROGRESS study (diagnosing urine tract infections in elderly nursing home residents)<br>The data are for a comparison of urine culture and urine dipstick results in urine that is spontaneously voided or obtained from incontinence material. <br>Obtaining a urine specimen for diagnosis is often a challenge in this population. If urine obtained from incontinence material could be used instead, this would make it possible that UTI treatment is started more frequently based on a proper microbiological evidence, rather than empirically. <br>We performed a laboratory-based non-inferiority study comparing these two sources of urine with regards to the presence of uropathogens in the culture, the number of colony counts in the culture, and the semi-quantitive results of the dipstick test (leucocytes and nitrite).<br>Urine specimens were randomly sampled from routine specimens present in a single bacteriology laboratory in a tertiary hospital. Specimens were used within 24 hours of voiding. Remnants of the urine (10 ml) were poured on incontinence material, incubated for 3 hours, after which dissected material was added to 9 ml of sterile water, and vortexed for 10 seconds. Bacterial cultures were conducted using routine procedures in which bacterial growth was assessed after overnight incubation, and species were identified though Maldi-tof mass spectrometry. Dipstick analysis used Combur2 from Roche.<br>Data structureThe file is in a .cvs format outputted through STATA version 16.0. The dataset is organised in the long format. The variable “pair” links the two urine sources. <br>CodebookThe file is in a .xlsx format. It lists the variables present in the database with their type, description, categorisation, and additional comments where applicable.<br>