Assessing the possibility of implementing a sieving protocol to improve diagnostic stewardship in urinalysis.

Objectives: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a highly prevalent cause of bacterial infection and urologic disease. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common and presents without pyuria (<10 WBC x106/L). Sieving protocol uses defined clinical details for samples without pyuria to indicated that they must be...

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Publicado en:New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. 94 - 96
Autores principales: Dixon, Nia, De Ruyter, Annie, Cahill, Catherine
Formato: abstract research Journal Article
Publicado: New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science Jul2023
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