Specimen collection is the process of obtaining tissue or fluids for laboratory analysis or near-patient testing. This article, the first in a six-part series on specimen collection, details how to ...

Midstream urine specimens are used to diagnose urinary tract infections in children. Accurate diagnosis is essential to guarantee correct therapy and prevent unnecessary treatment and hospital ...

As Dr Dawn Harper, GP and star of Embarrassing Bodies, stated at the Forte Medical Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine today: An initial light-hearted opening comment perhaps, but it quickly became ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2012;7(3):269-279. Catheter urine specimens (CSUs) may be appropriate in certain clinical settings, such as in the operating room or when patients are unable to void on ...

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The cause of acute uncomplicated cystitis is determined on the basis of cultures of voided midstream urine, but few data guide the interpretation of such results, especially when gram-positive ...

How much of a problem is contamination thought to be in urine sample collection? Contamination is thought to be a significant problem. Depending on which study you look at, the rates of urine ...

The current urine collection process involves the awkward and unreliable start-stop-start technique or requires the woman to insert a collection vessel into the urine stream in an attempt to capture ...

Colli‑Pee (Novosanis) is a single-use urine collection device. It is designed to collect the first pass urine at any time of day, typically referring to the first 20 ml of urine flush because this can ...