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Narrative Reporting in Microbiology

Writing into the patients story

  • Home
  • What?
    • An introduction to what we mean by narrative reporting
    • History
    • Complexity
  • Why?
    • Why have we introduced narrative to our reports
  • How?
    • Urine example reports
    • Genital samples in North Wales
  • Outcomes
    • Numbers
    • Clinical information
    • Antibiotic Resistance
    • Sustainability
    • Resources
  • Future
  • You
    • You our different audiences:
    • Public
    • Professional
    • Peers
    • Public Health
  • Us
    • Team
  • Bevan
  • Contact

About Dr Mike Simmons

Mike is the clinical lead for microbiology to the Hywel Dda Health Board in west Wales as well as the microbiology strategic lead on all aspects of infection prevention and control.

?UTI

December 31, 2021 by Dr Mike Simmons Leave a Comment

Your clinical information asks, “?UTI.” Microbiology cannot answer that question as such as that requires clinical insight and none is provided. There are many situations where either through a contaminated sample and asymptomatic colonisation would produce this result. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is increasingly common with age but can occur at younger ages, depending on underlying conditions. Always read a microbiology result in the context of what you are seeing clinically. … Read the rest

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