Antibiotics or NSAIDs for uncomplicated urinary tract infection?
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- DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j5037
Antibiotics or NSAIDs for uncomplicated urinary tract infection?
Conflict of interest statement
Competing interests: I have read and understood the BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: I am a co-investigator in a non-commercial grant from NIHR school for primary care research for a pragmatic study (ATAFUTI) exploring the effect of advice to use ibuprofen and a herbal preparation (Uva Ursi) in the symptomatic management of UTI.
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Symptomatic treatment of uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections in the ambulatory setting: randomised, double blind trial.BMJ. 2017 Nov 7;359:j4784. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4784. BMJ. 2017. PMID: 29113968 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
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