Use of protein: Creatinine ratio measurements on random urine samples for prediction of significant proteinuria: A systematic review

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1577-1586

  Price, Christopher P ^a,c   Newall, Ronald G ^a   Boyd, James C ^b  

^a Diagnostics Division   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PROTEIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

CREATININE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINURIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 24144481212     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.049742     Document Type: Review

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