Experiment 67531
Worktypes
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Vaccinium macrocarpon (ERICACEAE) |
| Citation | DIGNAM,RR: AHMED,M: KELLY,KC: DENMAN,SJ: ZAYON,M: KLEBAN,M:. (1998). THE EFFECT OF CRANBERRY JUICE ON URINARY TRACT INFECTION RATES IN A LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY.. 6(5) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A RETROSPECTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY AND A LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY OF NURSING FACILITY RESIDENTS WITH SYMPTOMATIC UTIS BEFORE AND AFTER DAILY ADMINISTRATION OF CRANBERRY JUICE. ALL RESIDENTS OF THE 538-BED LTC FACILITY PRESENT DURING THE STUDY PERIOD. FOUR OUNCES OF CRANBERRY JUICE WERE GIVEN TO ALL LTC FACILITY RESIDENTS DURING THE INTERVENTION PERIOD. SYMPTOMATIC UTIS WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH MONTHLY INFECTION CONTROL AUDITS. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY INVOLVED ALL THE LTC RESIDENTS WITH UTIS. THE UTI RATE DURING THE PREINTERVENTION PERIOD WAS 27.2 PER MONTH COMPARED WITH THE INTERVENTION PERIOD PER MONTH. THE LONGITUDINAL COHORT CONSISTED OF 113 LTC RESIDENTS WHO WERE PRESENT 8 MONTHS OF THE PREINTERVENTION PERIOD WITH UTI RATE OF 12.8 PER MONTH AND OF THE INTERVENTION PERIOD WITH 10.3 PER MONTH. SYMPTOMATIC UTIS AMONG LTC FACILITY RESIDENTS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED IN A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. THERE WAS A STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT TREND TOWARD REDUCTION IN UTIS IN A LONGITUDINAL COHORT. |
| Dose amount | 120.0 ML |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | JUICE |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |