
Page one: everything needed to prescribe
An 89-year-old, a diaper-collected urine, three organisms and two resistance markers.
- Who, what, when
- Patient, specimen, collection, received and resulted times, so the page stands alone in the chart.
- What the panel found
- Every organism and resistance marker detected, with severity and whether a marker changes anything.
- This patient's own risks
- Allergies on file, the interaction load each plan carries, and the precautions these findings warrant.
- Two plans, not one
- Each presentation, complicated and uncomplicated, gets its own agent, dose, route and duration.
- Coverage, organism by organism
- Which detected organisms each plan covers, which it does not, and which depend on susceptibility.
- Whether to treat at all
- The criteria for treating, stated before any drug is given, so treating stays a decision rather than a reflex.

