Nationwide epidemiology and clinical practice patterns of pediatric urinary tract infections: application of multivariate time-series clustering.
Yusuke OkuboKazuhiro UdaIsao MiyairiNobuaki MichihataRyosuke KumazawaHiroki MatsuiKiyohide FushimiHideo YasunagaPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2023)
Our study provided novel insight into the epidemiology and practice patterns for pediatric UTIs. Time-series clustering can be useful to identify the hospitals with aberrant practice patterns to further promote antimicrobial stewardship. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.