Meet RUPERT — the new decision support tool for treating kids with UTIs
The score can identify children most likely to benefit from IV antibiotics with 80% accuracy.
Deciding when to prescribe IV antibiotics for UTIs in kids could soon be made easier thanks to Australian doctors who have developed a world-first individualised scoring tool.
Dubbed ‘RUPERT’, the score can identify children with complicated UTIs who would benefit from initial IV antibiotics without relying on blood tests or urine cultures, says researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI).
