Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians: Question 1 - Urethral catheter or suprapubic aspiration to reduce contamination of urine samples in young children?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 736-739

  Winckworth, Lucinda ^a   Ayat, Rania ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAUNDICE; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUPRAPUBIC ASPIRATION; URETHRAL CATHETER; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; REVIEW; SUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUCTION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 69249134272     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.158964     Document Type: Note

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