False negative point‐of‐care urine pregnancy tests in an urban academic emergency department: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 Study objective To determine the prevalence of false negative point‐of‐care (POC) urine pregnancy tests among emergency department (ED) patients and among those with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding.
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Comparison of two bovine serum pregnancy tests in detection of artificial insemination pregnancies and pregnancy loss in beef cattle. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Blood tests for early detection of pregnancy in cattle based on pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are commercially available. The objective of these studies were to compare the accuracy of blood tests to transrectal ultrasonography in detecting ...
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Adding creatinine to routine pregnancy tests: a decision tree for calculating the cost of identifying patients with CKD in pregnancy. [PDF]
Nephrol Dial Transplant, 2023 Background Even in its early stages, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. The current guidelines for pregnancy management suggest identifying risk factors for adverse outcomes but do not mention kidney diseases ...
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Paired Testing of Sexually Transmitted Infections With Urine Pregnancy Tests in Incarcerated Women. [PDF]
Sex Transm Dis, 2021 Pairing gonorrhea/chlamydia with urine pregnancy tests in a large urban jail led to a nearly 5-fold increase in completed tests and a corresponding increase in positive test results. Background In correctional facilities, sexually transmitted infections (
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Effect of pregnancy tests on demand for family planning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain Language Summary Women in developing countries, especially in Africa, have high-unmet needs for family planning as well as high-unintended rates of pregnancy. At the same time, they may learn their pregnancy status later than women in higher-income
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A historical argument for regulatory failure in the case of Primodos and other hormone pregnancy tests. [PDF]
Reprod Biomed Soc Online, 2018 The drug Primodos and other hormone pregnancy tests (HPTs) remained on the British market for about a decade after they were first implicated, in 1967, as a possible cause of birth defects.
Olszynko-Gryn J +4 more
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Commentary on intentional falsification of at-home pregnancy tests [PDF]
JAAD Case Reports, 2022 Leah Lalor, MD +5 more
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Home pregnancy tests for iPLEDGE: ethically dealing with potential falsifications [PDF]
International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2023 Gabrielle Schwartzman, MD +2 more
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Strips of Hope: Accuracy of Home Pregnancy Tests and New Developments.
Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd, 2014 Gnoth C, Johnson S.
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PLoS ONE, 2021 In sub-Saharan Africa little is known about how often women use pregnancy self-tests or characteristics of these women despite evidence that pregnancy self-testing is associated with early antenatal care (ANC) initiation.
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