Objective To assess the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment of women with symptoms of urinary tract infection but negative urine dipstick testing. Design Prospective, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial. Setting Primary care, among a randomly selected group of general practitioners in Christchurch, New Zealand. Participants 59 women aged 16-50 years presenting with a history of...

هدف: هدف از این پژوهش بررسی واسطه‌­ای راهبردهای سازش نایافته تنظیم شناختی هیجان در رابطه باورهای فراشناختی با اضطراب امتحان بود. روش: روش حاضر توصیفی و نوع همبستگی جامعه آماری را کلیه دانش‌­آموزان پسر دوره دوم متوسطه شهر تهران سال تحصیلی 1401-1400 تشکیل دادند که تعداد 456 نفر به نمونه‏‌گیری دسترس انتخاب شرکت کردند. ابزارها شامل سیاهه ابوالقاسمی همکاران (1375)، پرسشنامه باکو دیگران (2009)، فرم ک...

BACKGROUND The urine dipstick is widely used as an initial screening tool for the evaluation of proteinuria; however, its diagnostic accuracy has not yet been sufficiently evaluated. Therefore, we evaluated its diagnostic accuracy using spot urine albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) and total protein/creatinine ratio (PCR) in proteinuria. METHODS Using PCR ≥0.2 g/g or ≥0.5 g/g and ACR ≥300 mg/g or...

OBJECTIVE To study the accuracy and clinical application of the dipstick leukocyte esterase test in the detection of pyuria in young febrile children suspected to have urinary tract infection. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Urine samples were taken from 215 children younger than 2 years who were suspected to have urinary tract infection (fever wit...

As an example of qualitative tests, a dipstick analysis for glucose in urine has been tested for the influence of modifying factors on the test result. Two different types of dipsticks were examined, "Clinistix" and "S-Gluko-test." Used according to manufacturer's instructions, the latter is more sensitive and selective. By multivariance analysis the following variables were examined: urine sam...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of the rapid urinary trypsinogen-2 test strip in post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis. METHODS A total of 150 patients were tested with the urinary trypsinogen-2 test strip and serum levels of amylase and lipase before ERCP and 3 hours after ERCP. The diagnostic value of urinar...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether data on proteinuria are useful for refining estimates of risk based on kidney function alone, and whether the results of kidney function tests can be a useful adjunct to data on proteinuria. DESIGN Analysis of data from a randomised trial. Impaired kidney function was defined as low glomerular filtration rate (< 60 ml/min/1.73 m2) and proteinuria (> or = 1+ pro...

Few studies assess agreement among Schistosoma haematobium eggs, measured hematuria, and self-reported metrics. We assessed agreement among four metrics at a single time point and analyzed the stability of infection across two time points with a single metric. We used data from the Eastern Region of Ghana and constructed logistic regression models. Girls reporting macrohematuria were 4.1 times ...

A new rK39 rapid diagnostic dipstick test (DiaMed-IT-Leish) was compared with aspiration and a direct agglutination test (DAT) for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in 201 parasitologically confirmed cases, 133 endemic controls, and in 356 clinical suspects in disease-endemic and -epidemic areas in Sudan. The sensitivity of the rK39 test in parasitologically confirmed VL cases was 90%, w...

An evaluation of a commercially available antigen capture dipstick that detects schistosome circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) in urine was conducted in representative endemic areas for intestinal and urinary schistosomiasis in Uganda and Zanzibar, respectively. Under field-based conditions, the sensitivity (SS) and specificity (SP) of the dipstick was 83 and 81% for detection of Schistosoma ma...