Journal article
Faster clean catch urine collection (Quick-Wee method) from infants: Randomised controlled trial
J Kaufman, P Fitzpatrick, S Tosif, SM Hopper, SM Donath, PA Bryant, FE Babl
BMJ Online | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j1341
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Abstract
Objective To determine if a simple stimulation method increases the rate of infant voiding for clean catch urine within five minutes. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Emergency department of a tertiary paediatric hospital, Australia. Participants 354 infants (aged 1-12 months) requiring urine sample collection as determined by the treating clinician. 10 infants were subsequently excluded. Interventions Infants were randomised to either gentle suprapubic cutaneous stimulation (n=174) using gauze soaked in cold fluid (the Quick-Wee method) or standard clean catch urine with no additional stimulation (n=170), for five minutes. Main outcom e measures The primary outcome was voiding of..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded by a philanthropic research project grant from the Shepherd Foundation. The foundation was independent of this trial and its researchers and had no part in the study design, data collection, data interpretation and analysis, writing of the manuscript, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. JK has been part funded by an Avant doctor in training research scholarship and Royal Australasian College of Physicians Basser research entry scholarship. FEB is supported in part by a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Excellence research grant for paediatric emergency medicine (GNT 1058560) and a Royal Children's Hospital foundation grant, Melbourne Australia. The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne receives infrastructure support from the Victorian government's infrastructure support programme, Melbourne, Australia.