eTable 6. Comparison between the physician’s decision to request a urine culture and the clinical practice guideline recommendation*.

Physician-related categorization	Urine culture recommended	Urine culture not recommended	Total
a) Urine culture would have been part of practice routine	409	251	660
b) Urine culture was performed only because of the study	239	344	583
Not specified	1	1	2
Total	649	596	1245

* Guideline recommendation (according to UTI clinical practice (S3) guideline [6])