False-positive urine pregnancy tests clinicians as detectives

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Valenzuela, Rolando ^a   Iserson, Kenneth V ^b   Punguyire, Damien ^c  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Kintampo Municipal Hospital   (Ghana)

Author keywords

False positive tests; Laboratory tests; Urine pregnancy test

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLEANING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DEVICE; MATERNITY WARD; PREGNANCY TEST; PREGNANT WOMAN; REUSED TEST TUBE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84876483803     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/pamj.v8i1.71156     Document Type: Article

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