Urinary tract infections impair the sex life, sleep and exercise of over half of women who experience them, and are associated with reduced quality of life, in U.S. survey

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IMAGE: THE GRAPH SHOWS THE ACTIVITIES REPORTED BY SURVEY PARTICIPANTS AS THOSE MOST AFFECTED BY THEIR RECENT UNCOMPLICATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION. view more 

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277728

Article Title: Activity impairment, health-related quality of life, productivity, and self-reported resource use and associated costs of uncomplicated urinary tract infection among women in the United States

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This study, including study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, and medical writing and submission support for the manuscript, was funded by GSK (study 212518). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0277728 

ARTICLE TITLE

Activity impairment, health-related quality of life, productivity, and self-reported resource use and associated costs of uncomplicated urinary tract infection among women in the United States

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

1-Feb-2023

COI STATEMENT

Jeffrey Thompson is a former employee and Jonathon Wright a current employee of Cerner Enviza, which received funding from GSK to conduct this study. Alen Marijam, Fanny Mitrani-Gold, and Ashish Joshi are employees and shareholders of GSK. Some of the material in this manuscript has been presented previously at the Infectious Disease Week (IDWeek) 2021 Virtual Congress: Thompson et al, “A Survey Study of Healthcare Resource Use and, Direct and Indirect Costs, Among Females with an Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in the United States”; and Thompson et al, “Activity Impairment and Health-Related Quality of Life Associated with an Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection Among US Females”. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.