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ReviewJournal of feline medicine and surgery2016

Practical urinalysis in the cat: 1: Urine macroscopic examination 'tips and traps'.

George Reppas, Susan F Foster

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Review in Journal of feline medicine and surgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Urinalysis in dog and cat: A review.Veterinary world · 2020
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  14. Urinalysis in the cat: measurement of urine protein:creatinine ratio.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

George ReppasVetnostics, 60 Waterloo Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia george.reppas@vetnostics.com.au.
Susan F FosterVetnostics, 60 Waterloo Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

series outlineThis is the first article in a two-part series on urinalysis in the cat. The focus of Part 1 is urine macroscopic examination. Part 2, to appear in the May 2016 issue, discusses urine microscopic examination. PRACTICAL RELEVANCE: Urinalysis is an essential procedure in feline medicine but often little attention is paid to optimising the data yielded or minimising factors that can affect the results. CLINICAL CHALLENGES: For the best results, appropriately collected urine should be prepared promptly by specialist laboratory personnel for the relevant tests and assessed by a clinical pathologist. This is invariably impractical in clinical settings but careful attention can minimise artefacts and allow maximum useful information to be obtained from this seemingly simple process. AUDIENCE: Clinical pathologists would be familiar with the information provided in this article, but it is rarely available to general or specialist practitioners, and both can potentially benefit. EQUIPMENT: Most of the required equipment is routinely available to veterinarians. However, instructions have been provided to give practical alternatives for specialist procedures in some instances. EVIDENCE BASE: Evidence for much of the data on urinalysis in cats is lacking. Validation of the human equipment used routinely, such as dipsticks, is also lacking. As such, the evidence base for feline urinalysis is quite poor and information has largely been extrapolated from the human literature. Information from feline studies has been included where available. In addition, practical clinicopathological and clinical observations are provided.

Indexed as

AnimalsCat DiseasesCatsClinical Laboratory TechniquesRenal Insufficiency, ChronicUrinalysisVeterinary Medicine

Identifiers

PMID26936492
PMCPMC11148903
OpenAlexW2291013281

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