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The place of routine urine testing on admission to hospital
Author(s) -
Mar Christopher Del,
Badger Patricia
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb139600.x
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , urine , hospital records , emergency medicine , diagnostic test , intensive care medicine , surgery , accounting , business
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.