INTRODUCTION
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URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI), BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
Among the bacterial infections managed in primary care, urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common and accounts for 1%–3% of GP consultations.To avoid contamination, patients are often advised to discard the first portion of the urine stream, in which the majority of any contaminants may be present, and to collect the midstream portion for the sample;A proposed solution to the problem of contamination is the use of a urine collection device (UCD) that is designed to automatically capture the midstream portion of a urine stream. There have been three previous studies of these devices,The Whiz Midstream device employs a pressure valve system, designed to let the initial urine stream flow into the toilet and the midstream sample to then flow into a sample bottle.A qualitative study was embedded in the current authors’ RCTHow this fits in