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由GJWilliams著作·2010·被引用204次—Thisreviewassessedrapidurinetestsforthediagnosisofurinarytractinfectioninchildrenandconcludedthatnoonetestcouldidentifyallurinarytract ...

This review assessed rapid urine tests for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection in children and concluded that no one test could identify all urinary tract infections without urine culture, but Gram-stain microscopy was the best single test. Dipstick tests should be considered positive if either leucocyte esterase or nitrite was positive. These conclusions are likely to be reliable.

To assess whether rapid urine tests were sufficiently sensitive to rule out urinary tract infection in children, without the use of urine culture, and to compare the accuracy of rapid tests with that of microscopy.

MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for articles from their inception to July 2009, and full details of the search strategy were provided in an online appendix. The ...