118: Talking urine culture orders
Let's Talk Micro · Luis Plaza
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Show Notes
This episode features a conversation with Lisa Parlich, an Infection Preventionist, with a background in Medical Laboratory Sciences. Lisa joins the podcast to talk about an order for urinalysis that was implemented in her hospital. This order is the Urinalysis with Hold order panel. Those of you that work in the laboratory might be familiar with the Urinalysis with reflex to culture order, where if an urinalysis meets the positive criteria for a culture, an order for an urine culture is reflexed, How does this new order differ from traditional orders? How does it help the patients ? How does it work? Tune in to find out.