Empirical antibiotic prophylaxis versus culture-directed enhanced prophylaxis for prevention of urinary tract infection after flexible ureteroscopy in children: A randomized controlled trial.

Patient and stone characteristics were similar in both groups.

There was no statistically significant difference between groups according to hospitalization time, readmission rates, or intraoperative complications.

While postoperative fever <38 °C was managed conservatively, postoperative narcotic use for pain control, hematuria, and febrile urinary tract infection showed no statistically significant differences between the two groups (p = 0.091, 0.346, 0.698, and 0.346, respectively).