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Pathology stewardship – an essential element of AMS

Poor antimicrobial prescribing decisions often are triggered by laboratory results that create red herrings or worse.  Inappropriate/ poor specimen collection and/or a request form that provides no context to the investigation often sets the ball rolling.  Inappropriate workup and reporting of contaminant or colonising isolates may then follow (it may be impossible for the lab […]