For the 2023 Urological Infections Guidelines, new and relevant evidence was identified, collated and appraised through a structured assessment of the literature for sections 3.5 Recurrent UTI, 3.16.2.8 Peri-Procedural Antibiotic Prophylaxis - Prostate Biopsy and the newly added section 3.15 Genitourinary Tuberculosis.
Broad and comprehensive literature searches, covering these sections were performed. Databases searched included Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Libraries. The time frames covered and the number of unique records identified, retrieved and screened for relevance for each section were:
Section | No. of unique records | Search time frame |
3.5 Recurrent UTI | 316 | 31st May 2021 – June 1st 2022 |
3.15 Genitourinary TB | 1,069 | Jan 2010 – 31st May 2022 |
3.16.2.8 Peri-Procedural Antibiotic Prophylaxis - Prostate Biopsy | 182 | 31st May 2021 – June 1st 2022 |