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    Although a smartphone could be used for a urine reagent strip test, few studies have reported on the reliability of the test in a clinical setting. The objective of our study was to access the smartphone-based urine reagent strip test in the clinical emergency department (ED). We developed a smartphone-based urine reagent strip reader for a rapid and accurate screening of leukocyte esterase (LE) and nitrite (NIT) in urine. The developed reader was evaluated with the clinical urine samples (n = 81). The detection performance of the reader for LE and NIT was evaluated to assess reliability of the reader; turnaround times (TATs) for analysis and the time for the entire study procedure were also calculated to assess the efficiency of the reader. A photometric analyzer (model US-3100R Plus(®); Eiken Chemical, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) was used as a reference. The proposed reader showed high accuracy (85.2% for LE and 97.5% for NIT), exhibiting close agreement with the true values (κ = 0.903 for LE; κ = 1.000 for NIT). The reader also exhibited a lower median TAT for analysis than the photometric analyzer (3.0 min versus 33.0 min; p < 0.001). This reduction of TAT in the reader was even more evident considering the required time for delivery of urine samples for the photometric analyzer (3.0 min versus 62.0 min; p < 0.001). Our results demonstrated the clinical capability of a smartphone-based urine reagent strip test, and this reader is expected to enable a more rapid and reliable colorimetric test for screening of LE and NIT at the clinical setting and the point of care.

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    Karam Choi, Ikwan Chang, Jung Chan Lee, Do Kyun Kim, Seungwoo Noh, Heejeong Ahn, Jun Hwi Cho, Young Ho Kwak, Sungwan Kim, Hee Chan Kim. Smartphone-Based Urine Reagent Strip Test in the Emergency Department. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2016 Jun;22(6):534-40

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    PMID: 26812464

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