Fast and Sensitive: Automated Point-of-care Urine Dips

Purpose Point-of-care (POC) urine dipstick is a highly utilized test in the pediatric emergency department (PED) due to its fast turn-around time (2 minutes) and inexpensive cost ( < $1). Limited literature exists evaluating the accuracy of POC urine dipstick and urinalysis for the evaluation of children with possible urinary tract infection (UTI) in …