Is culture-positive urinary tract infection in febrile children accurately identified by urine dipstick or microanalysis?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1155-1159

  Perkins, Jack ^a,b   Perkins, Karen ^b   Vilke, Gary M ^c   Almazroua, Faisal Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Franklin Square Hospital Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency Department; febrile infants; serious bacterial infection; UCX; urinalysis; urinary tract infection; urine culture; urine dipstick; urine microanalysis; UTI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEVER; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE DIPSTICK URINE MICROANALYSIS;

CHILD; FEVER; HUMANS; REAGENT STRIPS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 84870471379     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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