Impact of selective reporting of wound cultures on microbiology reports and antimicrobial-drug use on a wound-care ward in Finland: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Selective reporting is a promising tool for antimicrobial stewardship, but in wound cultures, its effects on the use of antimicrobials are unknown. Our HUS Diagnostic Center Bacteriology laboratory refined its selective reporting protocol for wound cultures during 2017-2018. In this study we aimed to show our protocol's impact on the frequency of antimicrobial escalation.