2023 Summaries and Changes of the undefined guideline

Summary of changes

For the 2023 Urological Infections Guidelines, new and relevant evidence was identified, collated and appraised through a structured assessment of the literature for sections 3.5 Recurrent UTI, 3.16.2.8 Peri-Procedural Antibiotic Prophylaxis - Prostate Biopsy and the newly added section 3.15 Genitourinary Tuberculosis.

Broad and comprehensive literature searches, covering these sections were performed. Databases searched included Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Libraries. The time frames covered and the number of unique records identified, retrieved and screened for relevance for each section were:

Section	No. of unique records	Search time frame
3.5 Recurrent UTI	316	31^st May 2021 – June 1^st 2022
3.15 Genitourinary TB	1,069	Jan 2010 – 31^st May 2022
3.16.2.8 Peri-Procedural Antibiotic Prophylaxis - Prostate Biopsy	182	31^st May 2021 – June 1^st 2022