GIRFT Pathology Report: low midstream urine sample submission to labs
The recentlly published GIRFT Pathology National Speciality Report recommends that NHS and laboratory providers audit urine collection methods to meet higher sample standards.
“On our deep dives [we found] that some labs had low levels of MSU submissions … and significant variation in rejection rates for urine samples for microbiology analysis.” the report states.
“We found a six-fold variation in the rejection of urine samples from primary care and in some places 5-7% of urine samples were rejected. There was greater unwarranted variation in samples from trusts, where we found a ten-fold variation in rejection rates, with several trusts rejecting over 10% of these samples.”
