Microbiology Antibiogram Preparation and Cumulative Susceptibility Reporting Policy

12 pages. Sets out nine data inclusion and exclusion decisions, the first isolate rule with a seven step method and verification, minimum number thresholds and suppression, and six stratifications with the caution attached to each. Covers calculation and presentation conventions, the eight statements every antibiogram must carry, review and distribution, use in empiric guidance, trend analysis across breakpoint changes, and six uses the report must never be put to.