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A clinical prediction rule for urinary tract infections in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care: Erratum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

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Abstract

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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

Within the Summary section the word optimism was incorrectly replaced with the word optimum. The corrected version of the summary is shown below.

SUMMARY

We aimed to develop a prediction rule for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). A 12-month prospective cohort study was conducted in patients with DM2 aged ⩾45 years to predict the occurrence of recurrent UTIs in women and lower UTIs in men. Predictors for recurrent UTI in women (n=81, 2%) and lower UTIs in men (n=93, 3%) were age, number of general practitioner (GP) visits, urinary incontinence, cerebrovascular disease or dementia. In women, renal disease was an additional predictor. The optimism corrected area under the receiver-operating curve (AUC) was 0·79 (95% CI 0·74–0·83) for women and 0·75 (95% CI 0·70–0·80) for men. Using a cut-off score of 4, women with a lower risk assignment had a probability of 0·3% for the outcome. For a cut-off score of 6, women with a higher risk assignment had a probability of 5·8%. For men these figures were 0·8 and 7·1 for a cut-off score of 2 and 4, respectively. Simple variables can be used for the risk stratification of patients.

References

1.Venmans, LMAJ, Gorter, KJ, Rutten, GEHM, Schellevis, FG, Hoepelman, AIM, Hak, E.A clinical prediction rule for urinary tract infections in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care. Epidemiol. Infect. Published by Cambridge University Press, 17 July 2008. doi:10.1017/S0950268808001015Google Scholar