Use of a urine dipstick and brief clinical questionnaire to predict an abnormal serum creatinine in the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 699-703

  Firestone, Daniel N ^a   Band, Roger A ^b   Hollander, Judd E ^b   Castillo, Edward ^a   Vilke, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Proteinuria; Questionnaire; Urine dipstick

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINALYSIS; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING;

CREATININE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINURIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; REAGENT STRIPS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 68149160808     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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