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Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS): Clinical Validation of the Italian Version

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Department of Translational Research and New Technologies, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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SOD Clinical Trial Statistical Support, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Urology Unit, S. Chiara Regional Hospital, 38122 Trento, Italy
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Department of Urology, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
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Clinic of Urology, Pediatric Urology and Andrology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35390 Giessen, Germany
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Department of Critical Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Antibiotics 2020, 9(3), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9030104
Received: 30 January 2020 / Revised: 20 February 2020 / Accepted: 24 February 2020 / Published: 2 March 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship)
Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS) is an 18-item self-reporting questionnaire for clinical diagnosis and follow-up of acute uncomplicated cystitis (AUC) in women. The ACSS, originally developed in Uzbek and Russian languages, is now available in several languages. The purpose of the study was to validate the ACSS questionnaire in the Italian language. Linguistic validation was carried out according to Linguistic Validation Manual for Patient-Reported Outcomes Instruments guidelines. Clinical validation was carried out by enrolling one hundred Italian-speaking women. All women were asked to fill in the ACSS questionnaire during their medical visit. Fifty-four women, median age 36 (Inter Quartile Range 28–49), were diagnosed with AUC, while 46 women, median age 38 (IQR 29–45), were enrolled as the control group attending the hospital’s fertility center for couples. The most frequently isolated pathogen in AUC was Escherichia coli (40; 74.0%) followed by Enterococcus faecalis (7; 13.0%) and Staphylococcus saprophyticus (3; 5.6%). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis performed at the first diagnostic visit on a typical symptoms domain cut-off score of 6 revealed a sensitivity of 92.5% and specificity of 97.8%. The Italian version of the ACSS has proved to be a reliable tool with a high accuracy in diagnosis and follow-up in women with AUC. The ACSS may also be useful for clinical and epidemiological studies. View Full-Text
Keywords: cystitis; female; urinary tract infection; pain; questionnaire; acute cystitis symptom score; ACSS cystitis; female; urinary tract infection; pain; questionnaire; acute cystitis symptom score; ACSS
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Di Vico, T.; Morganti, R.; Cai, T.; Naber, K.G.; Wagenlehner, F.M.E.; Pilatz, A.; Alidjanov, J.; Morelli, G.; Bartoletti, R. Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS): Clinical Validation of the Italian Version. Antibiotics 2020, 9, 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9030104

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Di Vico T, Morganti R, Cai T, Naber KG, Wagenlehner FME, Pilatz A, Alidjanov J, Morelli G, Bartoletti R. Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS): Clinical Validation of the Italian Version. Antibiotics. 2020; 9(3):104. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9030104

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Di Vico, Tommaso, Riccardo Morganti, Tommaso Cai, Kurt G. Naber, Florian M.E. Wagenlehner, Adrian Pilatz, Jakhongir Alidjanov, Girolamo Morelli, and Riccardo Bartoletti. 2020. "Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS): Clinical Validation of the Italian Version" Antibiotics 9, no. 3: 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9030104

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