Table 1

Incidence rates of urinary tract infections in children reported in previous studies
author	country, period	setting	age group	incidence in boys per 1000	incidence in girls per 1000

Stansfield 1966⁷	UK 1957–1964	child referred to hospital for UTI	0–14	0.17	0.4
Winberg 1974⁸	Göteborg 1960–1966	hospital	0–11	11	30
Uhari 1988¹⁰	Finland 1978–1984	hospital admission for UTI	0–14	2	7.5
Pead 1994¹¹	UK 1991–1992	culture requests positive	0–12	13.9	37
Mårild 1998⁹	Sweden 1979–1981	UTI diagnosed in hospital	0–6	18	66
Brooks 1977¹²	UK 1970–1974	UTI diagnosed in general practice	0–14	3.8	7.7
Dickinson 1979¹³	UK period unknown	UTI diagnosed in general practice	0–14	1.7	3.1
Van de Lisdonk 2000²	Netherlands 1971–1990	diagnosed in general practice	0–12	2.9	24.3

Kwok et al. BMC Pediatrics 2006 6:10 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-6-10