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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Sep 2;31(5):856–862. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13376

TABLE 2.

Features of past history that increase risk for UTI24,46,47

Domain Feature
Past medical history Immunocompromise
Diabetes
Cognitive impairment
Immobility
Impairment in activities of daily living, particularly disability in drinking and feeding self and disability in washing hands and face
Past urological history Prior antibiotic treatment for UTI
Urinary incontinence
Cystoceles (women)
Prostatic hypertrophy (men)
Recent instrumentation of urinary tract
Renal stones