Dipstick screening for urinary tract infection in febrile infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Glissmeyer, Eric W ^a,b   Korgenski, E Kent ^a,c   Wilkes, Jacob ^a,c   Schunk, Jeff E ^a,c   Sheng, Xiaoming ^a   Blaschke, Anne J ^a   Byington, Carrie L ^a,d  

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

^b Institute for Health Care Delivery Research   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant; Leukocyte esterase; Newborn; Nitrites; Predictive value of tests; Reagent strips; Urinalysis; Urinary tract infection; Utilization

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE DIPSTICK SCREENING; URINE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIURIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

BACTERIURIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84899797523     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-3291     Document Type: Article

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