Do why people seek advice from community pharmacies about skin problems?
Patients with undiagnosed skin problems seek advice from pharmacies for reasons of professional advice, accessibility, familiarity and trust and because they perceive their conditions as non-serious.
Contemporary automated urinalysis indices were often abnormal in a disease-free population of women, even using ideal collection technique. In clinical practice, such false-positive results could lead to false-positive UTI diagnosis. Only urine nitrite showed a high specificity. Culture contamination was common regardless of collection technique and was not predicted by urinalysis results.