During a health centre screening programme for men aged 60 years and over, the urinary dipstick results of 58 patients found to have microscopic haematuria were compared with the results of immediate microscopy at the health centre and routine microscopy by a hospital laboratory. There was agreement between a positive dipstick test for haematuria and the presence of red cells at routine microsc...

OBJECTIVES To estimate clinical and dipstick predictors of infection and develop and test clinical scores; to compare management using clinical and dipstick scores with commonly used alternative strategies; to estimate the cost-effectiveness of each strategy; and to understand the natural history of urinary tract infection (UTI) and women's concerns about its presentation and management. DESI...

patients and methods blood pressure (bp) measurement was performed by the auscultation method, and abnormal glomerular permeability was assessed by dipstick testing of urine for persistent proteinuria and/or hematuria for ≥ three months in hypertensive children. results of 1,335 pupils aged 10.0 ± 2.4 (6.0 - 14.0) years, 33 (2.5%) were hypertensive. overall mean systolic/diastolic bp was 125.6 ...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic urinary tract infection (UTI) studies have primarily been performed among female patients. AIM To create a diagnostic algorithm for male general practice patients suspected of UTI. DESIGN AND SETTING Surveillance study in the Dutch Sentinel General Practice Network. METHOD Clinical information and dipstick results were collected from 603 patients. Algorithm-predicte...

BACKGROUND Recent studies on Vietnamese children have shown that kidney diseases are not detected early enough to prevent chronic renal failure. The dipstick test is a simple and useful tool for detecting urinary abnormalities, especially in isolated or remote areas of Vietnam, where children have limited access to health care. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2011 at seven...