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This study evaluates rapid point-of-care tests used to detect urinary tract infection in older people living in care homes. It enrolls people aged 65 and over who permanently live in a care home and can provide consent. It is a study without an assigned phase and is currently recruiting.
The summary above is a plain-language rendering of the official record. The original English title is shown for reference.
Criteria are reproduced from the ClinicalTrials.gov record in the original English. Only the trial team can determine eligibility.
Inclusion Criteria: * Willing and able to give informed consent for the study, or if lacking capacity, a consultee willing to complete a consultee declaration form. * Permanently living in a care home (nursing, residential or mixed). * Aged 65 or over. Exclusion Criteria: * Current/recent suspected UTI (within last 4 weeks). However, may be reassessed for eligibility after 4 weeks. * Temporary/respite resident (unlikely to remain living in the care home for the 6 months of the study duration) * Terminal illness limiting life expectancy such that inclusion would be inappropriate (as judged by care home staff). * Known to have a medical condition or be on treatment that is likely to result in severe impairment of the immune system. For example, neutropenia, recent cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or long-term use of oral steroids or other immunosuppressant medication. * Experiencing faecal incontinence to the extent that it is impossible to obtain an uncontaminated urine sample (as determined by care home staff). * Indwelling urinary catheter or regular use of intermittent catheterisation. * Structural urological abnormalities. For example, renal polycystic disease, horseshoe kidney, hydronephrosis, renal hypoplasia * Current renal tract malignancy. However, residents with prostate cancer will be eligible if they do not require catheterisation and are not considered terminally ill.