Has the time come to include urine dipstick testing in screening asymptomatic young adults?

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 764-765

  Brown, Robert S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYSTOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOLATED MICROSCOPIC HEMATURIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; SCREENING TEST; URINALYSIS; URINE CYTOLOGY; URINE DIPSTICK TESTING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY DISEASE; NOTE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK; UNITED STATES;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051756806     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1193     Document Type: Editorial

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