Is a negative dipstick urinalysis good enough to exclude urinary tract infection in paediatric emergency department patients?
Prevalence of urinary tract infection varied with age with a higher prevalence in the 0-2 years age group. The lower negative predictive value and the higher clinical importance in this age group means that dipstick urinalysis is inadequate to exclude urinary tract infection. Conversely, we believe that children in the 2-10 years age group can adequately have urinary tract infection excluded with a negative dipstick urinalysis.
Although HRQL was similar between short-term, long-term and very long-term survivors, when compared with the background population, findings suggest that some functional impairments and symptoms are present even at 5-10 YSD.