URINALYSISACCURACYBackground:The diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) in the pediatric field remains a topic of debate. In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) introduced new guidelines for the diagnosis of UTI in patients 2-24 months old. However, concerns were raised regarding ...
In diagnosing the risk of a UTI, nurses are expected to take the patient's history, conduct dipstick urinalysis, and provide a patient with antibiotic treatment while waiting for the biochemistry results. Treating UTI may involve fluid intake, the bladder toilet practice, and drinking cranberry ...
Gram stain (GS) is uncertain.Objective We studied the GS performance to clarify its clinical utility at the ED.Methods Urine dipstick (UD), automated urinalysis (UF-1000i), GS and urine culture (UC) were performed in a cohort of consecutive adults presenting at the ED suspected of a UTI....
Purpose:We designed a nurse-led algorithm to standardize urinary tract infection (UTI) diagnosis for older adults receiving home-based medical care. Aims of this pilot quality improvement study were to reduce the frequency of empiric antibiotic therapy initiated without a urinalysis and urine culture ...
While odds of UTI in cystitis class were higher than the asymptomatic class, this difference was not statistically significant. Positive UA class had significantly higher odds of UTI compared to negative UA class. Conclusion Two unobserved classes/groups exist in children with neuropathic bladder with...
As compared to urinalysis and urine culture methods, the data are derived from a single experiment for a given sample and provide additional insights into presence or absence of inflammatory responses and vaginal contamination of urine specimens.Yanbao...