Effectiveness of Preanalytic Practices on Contamination and Diagnostic Accuracy of Urine Cultures: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

LaRocco, Mark; Franek, Jacob; Kenimer Leibach, Elizabeth; S. Weissfeld, Alice; S. Kraft, Colleen; L. Sautter, Robert; S. Baselski, Vickie; Rodahl, Debra; J. Peterson, Edward; E. Cornish, Nancy

doi:10.1128/cmr.00030-15

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Effectiveness of Preanalytic Practices on Contamination and Diagnostic Accuracy of Urine Cultures: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews • Nov 24, 2015

Authors:

Mark LaRocco

Jacob Franek

Elizabeth Kenimer Leibach

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection (UTI) in the United States is the most common bacterial infection, and urine cultures often make up the largest portion of workload for a hospital-based microbiology laboratory. Appropriately managing the factors affecting the preanalytic phase of urine culture co...

Subject

Meta-analysis

Medical laboratory

Medicine

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