Emergency department visual urinalysis versus laboratory urinalysis

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 540-543

  Worrall, James C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Department of Diagnostic Imaging   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Laboratory delays; Point of care testing; Urinalysis

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; GLUCOSE; KETONE; NITRITE; PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEVER; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHOTOMETRY; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WEAKNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLUCOSURIA; HEMATURIA; LABORATORY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; STANDARD; TEST STRIP; URINE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GLYCOSURIA; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KETONES; LABORATORIES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NITRITES; PHOTOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINURIA; REAGENT STRIPS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 77953277334     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500011817     Document Type: Article

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