Innovations in Worksite Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections and the Occupational Health Nurse
| Autor: | Louise C. O'Keefe, Zac McGee, L. Savannah Dewberry, Paula M. Koelle, J. Ethan Stallings, Carter Wright, Krishnan K. Chittur, Elizabeth Gates |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Validation study Nursing (miscellaneous) Student Health Services Validation Studies as Topic Occupational safety and health Cohort Studies Occupational Health Nursing 03 medical and health sciences Work time 0302 clinical medicine Inventions Nursing Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Employee health Aged Aged 80 and over 0303 health sciences 030306 microbiology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sequence Analysis DNA Middle Aged Klebsiella pneumoniae Occupational health nursing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Urinary Tract Infections Female business |
| Zdroj: | Workplace Health & Safety. 67:268-274 |
| ISSN: | 2165-0969 2165-0799 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2165079919834310 |
| Popis: | Occupational health nurses play a key role in evaluating innovative technologies that can aid in providing safe and rapid care and reduce lost work time. A nurse-led employee health clinic participated in a validation study of a novel pathogen detection technique developed by GeneCapture, Inc. Their proposed portable urinary tract infection (UTI) in vitro diagnostic test was challenged with discarded, deidentified urine samples from patients presenting with typical UTI symptoms collected at two university clinics and two multiphysician practices. GeneCapture’s panel for this study was designed to rapidly identify the genetic signature of seven organisms: gram-negative Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; gram-positive Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus; and fungal Candida species. The results from 40 clinical samples were in 95% agreement (90% specificity, 100% sensitivity) with traditional urine culture results from routine analysis. This successful occupational health nursing collaboration and validation study shows promise for point-of-care diagnoses and earlier treatment for workers with UTIs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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