Antibiotic screening of urine culture as a useful quality audit

• DOI: 10.3855/jidc.923
• Publication Date: 2011-05-02T08:16:29Z
• Authors: Godwin Wilson; Shaherudeen Badar...; Angela Godwin
• Keywords: Etiology

Introduction: The diagnosis of urinary tract infections includes microbiologic culture urine to determine the etiology infection. However, interpretation results can be confounded by various factors including accuracy a patient's history current antibiotic usage. Methodology: In this report, we tested specimens for presence antibiotics and compared our data entry on accompanying request forms. addition, consequences culturing with incomplete received in laboratory were investigated. Results: During study period, 14,680 urines obtained modified antibacterial substance assay (UABA). There (97.32%) true-negative, 6 (0.04%) false-negative, 222 (1.51%) true-positive 166 (1.13%) false-positive results. sensitivity specificity test was 97.37% 98.85% respectively. Conclusion: This internal audit practice demonstrates importance accurately completed forms how information impacts clinical