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5.4.4 Culture Summary
The Culture Summary report lists total counts for contaminant, positive, and negative cultures, as well
as percent of total cultures for each of these counts.
To qualify for inclusion, cultures must have a state of Removed (all vials related by accession number
must be removed from the instrument), be within the selected date and time range, and have a final
status of positive, manual positive, negative, manual negative, or be ongoing and removed from the
instrument.
A culture is considered a contaminant, positive, or negative based on the following criteria:
Contaminant – when all of the positive/manual positive vials within the accession are marked as
contaminant.
Positive – if the accession contains at least one positive or manual positive vial that is not marked
as a contaminant.
Negative – when all the vials in the accession are either negative, manual negative, or ongoing/
removed from the instrument.
The report provides the following information:
Header: Selection/Sorting/Reporting Criteria, Hospital Information (if configured), Instrument
Number, Instrument Software Version, Report Title, and Date and Time Printed
Body of Report (columns from left to right): Positive (number of cultures and percent), Negative
(number of cultures and percent), Contaminant (number of cultures and percent), and total number
of Cultures
Applicable Selection Criteria:
Time Range Report By
See Figure 5-16 for a sample Culture Summary report.
To print a Culture Summary Report:
1 From the Status display, select the Reports tab to access the Reports menu.
2 Select the desired report in the menu.
3 Select the desired report criteria by selecting the radio button next to the criteria.
Time Range: Select the From: and To: buttons to select the start and end times. The default
time range is from midnight 45 days ago.
Report By: primary selection: None, Media, Hospital Service. If a criterion other than None is
selected, any Media or Hospital Services that have been used in patient/specimen records
appear in the secondary selection field. The default values are All Media and Hospital
Services.
4 Select Print to print the report.
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