https://phw.org.uk/narrativereporting Writing into the patients story Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:05:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177120643 https://phw.org.uk/narrativereporting/msu/ https://phw.org.uk/narrativereporting/msu/#respond Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:05:00 +0000 https://phw.org.uk/narrativereporting/?p=1841 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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