Optimizing the diagnostic work-up of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Knottnerus, Bart J ^a   Bindels, Patrick J E ^a   Geerlings, Suzanne E ^a   Van Charante, Eric P Moll ^a   Ter Riet, Gerben ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GONORRHEA; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; POLLAKISURIA; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 58149172054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-64     Document Type: Article

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