Going with the Flow: Proper Urine Testing Methods for Clinical Practice

This book details specific urine tests obtained in clinical practice, their indications and clinical implications. However, before a provider should order urine testing, he or she must understand appropriate methods of urine collection for different situations, as well as how urine testing is performed. With this knowledge, false negative and false positive results can be more easily identified, and testing can be optimized for efficiency and cost to the patient and provider. In addition to basic urine dipstick and urine microscopy testing, multiple other uses for urine testing will be discussed throughout this book. In this chapter pregnancy and ovulation testing, testing for urinary calculi, and cytopathologic examination of cells in the urine will be discussed.