Monitoring
After completing acute UTI treatment, men should have clinical follow-up within 2 to 4 weeks. During this visit, further testing is not required, but the physician should ensure resolution of symptoms and completion of antibiotic therapy, and seek to identify factors that may indicate complicated UTI. The patient should be informed that recurrence of UTI necessitates detailed evaluation of the urinary tract with imaging.
Patients hospitalised for UTI should have similar clinical follow-up, with imaging indicated if hospitalisation occurred because of treatment failure or pyelonephritis.
Ongoing clinical monitoring should occur in patients with indwelling catheters; prophylactic antibiotics are not indicated.[32][75] Catheters should be removed as soon as possible. Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria after catheter removal is not indicated.[4]
Patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria do not require follow-up unless they plan to undergo a urinary tract procedure.
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