Can Urine Dipstick be Used as a Surrogate for Serum Creatinine in Emergency Department Patients Who Undergo Contrast Studies?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-122

  Firestone, Daniel ^a   Wos, Adam ^a   Killeen, James P ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a   Guluma, Kama ^a   Davis, Daniel P ^a   Vilke, Gary M ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

creatinine; hematuria; protein; urine dipstick

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY CARE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CREATININE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINALYSIS;

EID: 34547565534     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.02.021     Document Type: Article

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