May 2, 2012 — Ruling out a urinary tract infection (UTI) is essential in the differential diagnosis for a febrile child, and several methods are available for collecting urine. A study published ...

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 ...

This article, the first in a four-part series, describes the general principles of specimen collection and how to collect a midstream specimen of urine ...

Although 24-h urine collection is widely considered the ’gold standard’ for estimation of population sodium intake, spot urine collection is increasingly used as a convenient and affordable ...