Urinalysis in Acute Care of Adults: Pitfalls in Testing and Interpreting Results

BACKGROUND.  Rapid urine tests for infection (urinalysis, dipstick) have low up-front costs. However, many false positives occur, with important downstream consequences, including unnecessary antibiotics. We studied indications, collection technique, and results of urinalyses in acute care. METHODS....

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Publicat a:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autors principals: Pallin, Daniel J., Ronan, Clare, Montazeri, Kamaneh, Wai, Katherine, Gold, Allen, Parmar, Siddharth, Schuur, Jeremiah D.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Oxford University Press 2014
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324184/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25734092
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu019
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