The Journal of Practical Medicine ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (18): 2777-2785.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-5725.2025.18.001

• Guidelines Interpretation •    

Interpretation of 《Global consensus on multidisciplinary diagnostic criteria for urinary tract infections》

Guofen LIANG,Zhenhua YANG,Yibo WANG,Kaiyu HE,La ZHANG,Xusheng LIU,Yueyu GU,Xindong QIN,Guobin SU()   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine,Second Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine,Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Intractable Chronic Diseases,Department of Nephrology,Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Research Team of Big Data in Traditional Chinese Medicine,LIU Xusheng Guangdong Provincial Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance Studio,Guangzhou 510120,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2025-05-26 Online:2025-09-20 Published:2025-09-25
  • Contact: Guobin SU E-mail:guobin.su@gzucm.edu.cn

Abstract:

The clinical diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection has long faced the challenges of insufficient standardization of diagnosis and treatment pathways, irrational use of antimicrobial drugs and high recurrence rate. How to optimize the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment pathway of urinary tract infection, standardize the use of antimicrobial drugs, and reduce the recurrence rate have always been the focus of clinical attention. There is significant heterogeneity in the existing diagnostic criteria for urinary tract infection, which seriously affects the comparability and evidence integration of clinical and research studies. In order to solve the above problems, a consensus on global multidisciplinary diagnostic criteria for urinary tract infection has been formed by international multidisciplinary experts after three rounds of Delphi method. Breaking through the traditional classification framework, the consensus innovatively established a four-dimensional quantitative scoring system including local symptoms and signs, systemic inflammatory response, quantitative analysis of pyuria and urine culture results, and established a hierarchical standard for stepwise urinary tract diagnosis according to the scoring threshold. Based on the key citations related to the consensus, this paper interprets in detail the basis for the selection of core indicators and the establishment of thresholds for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection in the consensus, and focuses on the key issues and implementation paths of the consensus in localization practice. This consensus provides a unified standard for standardizing the clinical diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection, improving the homogeneity of clinical research through standardized diagnostic processes, and promoting the standardization of UTI drug research and development and the rational use of antibiotics and precision.

Key words: urinary tract infections, consensus on global multidisciplinary diagnostic criteria, localization practice, diagnostic process, clinical diagnosis and treatment

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