The place of routine urine testing on admission to hospital.
An audit of routine urine testing by dipsticks at a large private provincial hospital analysed 2294 patient records. No result was recorded in 12% of records. Abnormal but expected results were obtained in 9% of cases. Of the 4% of unexpectedly abnormal results, in only one-third of patients was the attending practitioner aware of these results and, in fewer than one-fifth of the patients, were further diagnostic tests performed. In not one case was treatment altered.
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Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Herston.
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D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D010343:Patient Admission; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D014556:Urine / Q000032:analysis*
D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic