title: Evaluation of Clinitek 200 and Rapimat II/T for screening for urinary tract infection.
abstract: Two machines, the Clinitek 200 and the Rapimat II/T, were evaluated for their ability to screen urine samples for significant bacteriuria and other elements indicative of urinary tract pathology. The automated screening procedures were compared with a conventional approach of microscopy and quantitative culture for 1020 urine specimens obtained from patients in a 700 bed general hospital. When compared with the bacterial culture method both machines gave identical results with a negative predictive value of 0.99, while when compared with microscopy alone the Clinitek 200 and Rapimat II/T gave negative predictive values of 0.92 and 0.87, respectively. It is concluded that both machines would provide cost effective screening of urine specimens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Western Australia, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Riley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014556:Urine / Q000382:microbiology*