False positive test results for occult blood in the urine are relatively common (22%) with dipstick testing. To be a true false positive, a microscopy test must also be negative.

"The chart doesn't tell me [a urine dipstick result] is abnormal," Betancourt said in an interview. "The chart just reports it, agnostic of normal or abnormal." ...

How to Prepare for a Urine pH Test Before performing the test, your doctor may advise you to avoid taking medications that can affect your urine pH. These include: Ammonium chloride, present in ...

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TOPLINE: Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 ...

The urine dipstick was supposed to change that by bringing the test to a D.I.Y. level. It's a paper strip with 10 square pads that each change color when dipped in urine.

Of patients with urine dipstick testing, 7,967 or 13% had an abnormal T1 protein dipstick test result, and 6.7% of those had follow-up albumin-to-creatinine or protein-creatinine ratio assessment ...