Urine culture contamination: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  February 1, 1998 ;   Valenstein, Paul; Meier, Frederick;   787 words ......causes of urine culture contamination...with low er contamination rates tended to...reported lower contamination rates in specimens...specimen contamination rates in a multivariate...frequency of urine culture ...

A Review of Articles From Last Month's Archives of Pathology & Laboratory...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  July 1, 2008 ;   Anonymous;   702 words ......et al) 6. Data for 14 739 urine culture specimens from 127 institutions determined that the median contamination rates by gender were 7.4% for male...years. True or False? (from Urine Culture Contamination-Bekeris et al...

"The bathroom secret doctors wouldn't believe": "I ran to the ladies' room...

Redbook;  July 1, 2003 ;   Simone, Catherine;   787 words ......go, almost nothing came out. After a urine culture, my doctor diagnosed me with a bladder...bacteria that was originally in my urine culture had now cleared; I was cured of my...d describe my symptoms; he'd order a urine culture (which always came back negative) and...

Assessing Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Diagnosis and...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  February 1, 2007 ;   Grover, Michael L; Bracamonte, Jesse D; Kanodia, Anup K; Bryan, Michael J; Et al;   787 words ......sensitivity patterns from outpatient urine culture and sensitivity analyses were determined...by patient age. Urine dipstick and urine culture and sensitivity analyses were ordered...on urine dipstick analyses also had urine culture and sensitivity analyses. ...

Trends in Blood Culture Contamination: A College of American Pathologists...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  October 1, 2005 ;   Bekeris, Leonas G; Tworek, Joseph A; Walsh, Molly K; Valenstein, Paul N;   787 words ......Objectives.-To measure blood culture contamination rates in a large number of institutions...associated with sustained reduction in contamination rates. Design.-Longitudinal cohort study...significantly associated with lower contamination rates (P < .001). Continued ...

Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Missed In First Trimester.(Brief Article)

Family Practice News;  February 15, 2001 ;   Mann, Arnold;   230 words ...AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. -- Doing a urine culture for asymptomatic bacteriuria during...each prenatal visit was followed by a urine culture if the dipstick results were positive...specificity). All women should have a urine culture in the first trimester, but when costs...

Urinary tract infection in children.

American Family Physician;  December 15, 2005 ;   Alper, Brian S. Curry, Sarah H.;   787 words ......or failure to thrive in infants. Urine dipstick analysis is useful for...low clinical suspicion. However, urine culture is necessary for diagnosis of urinary...presenting with a first UTI. (8) URINE CULTURE Urine culture is required for diagnosis of UTI...from bags or pads ...

Why routine bacterial culture of urine makes sense

DVM;  October 1, 1999 ;   Osborne, Carl A;   787 words ......to why, when and how tediniques of urine culture can be economically applied to a primary...well. For this reason, quantitative urine culture is considered the gold standard for...culture. For this reason, quantitative urine culture is routinely recommended for samples...

Baffling bladder bothers. (Cosmo Gyno).(kidney, urinary tract, and bladder...

Cosmopolitan;  April 1, 2003 ;   Grumman, Rachel;   168 words ......BOTHER SYMPTOMS TREATMENT OVERACTIVE Peeing more than A urine culture can rule BLADDER eight times a day out infection. If none...time medication options. URINARY Strong, constant urge If a urine culture is pos- TRACT to empty your bladder, itive, your doctor will...

Urinalysis Often Adequate for UTI With Fever.

Pediatric News;  July 1, 2001 ;   SPLETE, HEIDI;   322 words ......young infants usually require a urine culture regardless of the urinalysis...given the invasiveness of a urine culture, knowing which older infants...In a paired analysis of both urine culture and standard combined dipstick...

Early Testing Can Miss Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Pregnancy.

OB GYN News;  January 1, 2001 ;   MANN, ARNOLD;   292 words ...AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. -- Doing a urine culture for asymptomatic bacteriuria during...each prenatal visit, was followed by a urine culture if results of the dipstick test were...that all pregnant women should have a urine culture in the first trimester, but when costs...

Blood culture contamination: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 1998 ;   Schifman, Ron B; Strand, Calvin L; Meier, Frederick A; Howanitz, Peter J;   787 words ......evaluation of adult blood culture contamination rates in 640 institutions. Main Outcome...was no significant difference in contamination rates between inpatient and outpatient...associ ated with significantly lower contamination rates included use of a dedicated phlebotomy...

Pediatric management problems.

Pediatric Nursing;  March 1, 2002 ;   Belkengren, Richard Sapala, Shirley;   787 words ......positive for nitrites and leuko esterase; urine culture pending; CBC pending. What is Your...sulfa, 1 teaspoon PO BID for 10 days. Urine culture later confirmed the presence of a UTI...1 teaspoon PO QD for prophylaxis. Urine culture should be obtained every 3 months to...

Using the urine dip-stick to screen out unnecessary urine cultures:...

Clinical Laboratory Science;  January 1, 2002 ;   Reilly, Patricia; Mills, Laura; Bessmer, Daniel; Jimenez, Celia; Et al;   787 words ......examining the results of 843 urinalysis/ urine culture pairs indicated that one-third of these...samples having both a urinalysis and urine culture ordered. Over a six-month period, 6...biochemical screen; culture screen; urine culture; urine dipstick. Clin Lab Sci 2002...

Parenterals Laboratory Course to Reduce Microbial Contamination Rates in...

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education;  March 1, 2008 ;   Isanhart, Christine M; McCall, Kenneth L; Kretschmer, Diane; Grimes, Barbie A;   787 words ...Objectives. To evaluate microbial contamination rates of low- and medium-risk level media...practice setting.2-4 In one such study, contamination rates were compared between pharmacists...was used to detect contamination. Contamination rates did not significantly differ between...