Evaluación del analizador de orinas Sysmex UF-1000i como método de cribado en el diagnóstico de la infección del tracto urinario

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Introduction Urine samples are those most commonly processed in clinical microbiology laboratories. Given that around 60-80% of samples are negative, a screening urine samples is recommended for reducing costs of and technical staff workload, and for anticipating negative results. The aim of the work was to evaluate the Sysmex UF-1000i performance obtained from bacterial counts and leukocyte counts in order to discriminate samples must be cultured. Material and methods By processing a representative sample of the population of 922 urines samples, an optimization of the screening was performed through calculating the optimal thresholds of the equipment through ROC curves in order to obtain the best sensitivity for the best specificity. Using these values, the operational characteristics of the screening were calculated. Statistical calculations were performed using the softwares Analyze-it v.2.11 for Microsoft Excel and SPSS v.20.0. Results The best sensitivity for the best specificity was obtained with the cut-offs 247,850 bacteria/mL and 31,800 leukocytes/mL. By using these cutoffs, a 90,6% sensitivity (95% CI: 86.7-94.6), 66.3% specificity (95% CI: 62.9-69.9), 47.8% positive predictive value (95% CI: 43.0-52.1) and 95.4% negative predictive value (95% CI: 93.4-97.4) were obtained. Conclusion The Sysmex UF-1000i shows suitable operational characteristics for its incorporation into clinical microbiology laboratories.