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A urine test strip or dipstick is a basic diagnostic tool used to determine pathological changes in a patient's urine in standard urinalysis. A standard...

appearance of hematuria and may result in a positive urine dipstick test for hematuria. A urine dipstick test may also give an incorrect positive result for...

into the urine, although this type of proteinuria is not as easily detected by urine dipsticks. If proteinuria is persistently detected by dipstick testing...

medicine, dipsticks can be used to test for a variety of liquids for the presence of a given substance, known as an analyte. For example, urine dipsticks are...

simple dipstick test, although it is possible for the test to give a false negative reading, even with nephrotic range proteinuria if the urine is dilute...

A urine test is any medical test performed on a urine specimen. The analysis of urine is a valuable diagnostic tool because its composition reflects the...

home and in a hospital setting. DNPH or specialized dipsticks may be used to test the patient's urine for ketones (a sign of metabolic decompensation),...

the pooled urine, and extrapolating to the volume collected. Also a urine dipstick test for proteinuria can give a rough estimate of albuminuria. This...

of the urine dipstick test while waiting for the culture results.[citation needed] Bacteriuria can usually be detected using a urine dipstick test. The...

2018). "Cleaning the genitalia with plain water improves accuracy of urine dipstick in childhood". European Journal of Pediatrics. 177 (10): 1573–1579....

special albumin-specific urine dipsticks, which have a lower detection threshold than standard urine dipsticks. A microalbumin urine test determines the presence...

methods including urine dipstick testing and microscopic examination. Because the kidney is responsible for making urine, analyzing the urine directly can...

may be ordered as a follow-up test when proteinuria is detected by urine dipstick analysis, which may lead to a diagnosis of hypoalbuminemia. Low levels...

for nitrite carries a high predictive value of a positive urine culture. Also, urine dipstick showing leukocytes as equal predictive value as the presence...

Glycosuria is the excretion of glucose into the urine. Ordinarily, urine contains no glucose because the kidneys are able to reabsorb all of the filtered...

protein in a 24-hour urine sample or a SPOT urinary protein to creatinine ratio ≥0.3 or a urine dipstick reading of 1+ or greater (dipstick reading should only...

conventional or luminescent dye. Pregnancy urine dipstick tests are based on the lateral flow technique. The urine test may be a chromatographic immunoassay...

thorough physical exam. They should test the urine of the potentially exposed worker by doing a urine dipstick or microscopic examination, mainly looking...

screen for establishing the presence of a UTI. Urine test strips (dipsticks) can screen for both. A urine sample that tests positive for both nitrite and...

electrolytes, serum creatinine, lipid panel, HbA1c or fasting glucose, urine dipstick and electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG). Serum creatinine is measured to assess...