This assignment is about fact-checking cited resources. It is not about the effectiveness of cranberry juice on UTIs.

You are asked to go to one of the sources cited and see if the statement in the article MATCHES the information provided by the cited reference.

The article states, “Because E coli represents the majority of urinary isolates among nursing home residents, cranberry products remain an appealing UTI prevention strategy, but the evidence is conflicting.9 (Links to an external site.),10 (Links to an external site.) “

Footnotes 9 and 10 give you the sources for this statement:

9.Jepson  RG, Williams  G, Craig  JC.  Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;10:CD001321.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23076891/

10.Wang  CH, Fang  CC, Chen  NC,  et al.  Cranberry-containing products for prevention of urinary tract infections in susceptible populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(13):988-996.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22777630/  https://jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3004

Go to one of these original sources cited in the footnotes, and determine if the statement in the article is accurately supported by the original research or not. Share this determination, in your own words, and be specific why you came to this conclusion.

This assignment is about fact-checking cited resources. It is not about the effectiveness of cranberry juice on UTIs.

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