We are looking for any suggestions on how to quantify urine epi cells.  How do you determine the numerical range for reporting rare, few, moderate, many?

This is an older post; however, each facility sets the numerical range/semi-quantitative range for their urine microscopic constituents with the guidance and approval of the medical director. The majority of facilities I've worked with have used and reported numerical ranges, with only a couple reporting as few/moderate/many.  Here are the ranges the hospital I'm currently with are using. The far right column is the actual result set that reports on the patient chart. These could easily be translated as normal/rare/few/moderate/many/TNTC (too numerous to count).

EPITHELIAL CELLS

Normal: 0-2

0-2, 2-5, 5-10, 10-25, 25-50, or greater than (>) 50/ HPF