Archives of disease in childhood
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
An improved urine collection pad method: a randomised clinical trial.
To evaluate a modified urine collection pad (UCP) method for its ability to reduce heavy mixed growth bacterial contamination of UCP samples in young children with suspected urinary tract infection (UTI). ⋯ Changing the UCP every 30 minutes almost eliminates heavy mixed growth contamination of UCP samples and substantially increases the proportion of UCP results that confidently exclude UTI. This represents a simple and clinically important improvement to the UCP method which is reliable for diagnosing and excluding UTI in young children still in nappies. It has potential for use in outpatient clinics, in the primary healthcare setting, or at home.
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NICE guidelines for the management of head injury were published in June 2003. Their recommendations differ markedly from previous guidelines published by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). In place of skull radiography and admission, computed tomography (CT) is advocated. The impact of these guidelines on service provision in the UK is unknown. ⋯ The new NICE guidelines do not increase the workload caused by patients attending with head injury but they move their management from the observation ward to the radiology department.