O'Dowd T C, Smail J E, West R R
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1984 May 5;288(6427):1347-9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.288.6427.1347.
In a study of 40 women with the urethral syndrome and 46 women with conventional urinary tract infection, none of whom was pregnant, general practitioners predicted the diagnosis correctly before the report on the midstream urine specimen was received, as evidenced by their management. They seemed to do this by balancing the symptom of dysuria with the psychological make up of the patient: patients with the urethral syndrome suffered appreciably less dysuria than patients with urinary tract infection; patients with the urethral syndrome suffered appreciably more psychological illness. This ability to distinguish between the two disorders has important clinical and economic implications.
在一项针对40名患有尿道综合征的女性和46名患有传统尿路感染的女性（均未怀孕）的研究中，全科医生在收到中段尿标本报告之前就正确地做出了诊断，这从他们的处理方式中可以得到证明。他们似乎是通过权衡排尿困难症状与患者的心理构成来做到这一点的：患有尿道综合征的患者排尿困难明显少于患有尿路感染的患者；患有尿道综合征的患者心理疾病明显更多。这种区分这两种疾病的能力具有重要的临床和经济意义。
