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Innovative Workflow To Collect Home Urine Samples From Symptomatic Patients Sheltered In Place During Covid-19, Andrew Korman, Siddharth Ramanathan, Jonathan Korman, Sadhna Ramanathan, Savitha Balaraman, Natalie Luke, Rajan Dewar, Kirk J. Wojno, Larry Sirls, Howard Korman

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Introduction: The two main challenges during the COVID 19 pandemic were to keep essential employees safe and to provide timely care to patients. We devised a novel urine specimen home pickup strategy for our patients with hematuria, irritative voiding symptoms as well as bladder cancer to address these issues. Methods: An employee dropped off necessary equipment for the urine sample to symptomatic patients’ houses. A clean catch specimen was collected and the sample left at the front door. The driver wearing PPE picked up the sample within 30 minutes and delivered it to the lab. Dipstick analysis was performed. Patients …