Diagnostic stewardship of C. difficile testing: a quasi-experimental antimicrobial stewardship study

We evaluated whether a diagnostic stewardship initiative consisting of ASP preauthorization paired with education could reduce false-positive hospital-onset (HO) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Single center, quasi-experimental study. Tertiary academic medical center in Chicago, Illinois....

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Veröffentlicht in:	Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2019-03, Vol.40 (3), p.269-275
Hauptverfasser:	Christensen, Alyssa B, Barr, Viktorija O, Martin, David W, Anderson, Morgan M, Gibson, Amanda K, Hoff, Brian M, Sutton, Sarah H, Widmaier, Valerie, Salim, Asra A, Silkaitis, Christina, Qi, Chao, Zembower, Teresa R, Postelnick, Michael J, Rhodes, Nathaniel J
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Algorithms Antibiotics Antimicrobial agents Antimicrobial Stewardship - statistics & numerical data Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile Clostridium Infections - diagnosis Clostridium Infections - drug therapy Computerized physician order entry Cross Infection - diagnosis Cross Infection - drug therapy Diarrhea Education Electronic health records Epidemiology False Positive Reactions Female Health Education - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Infections Inpatients - statistics & numerical data Intervention Male Medical diagnosis Medical laboratories Multidrug resistant organisms Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - statistics & numerical data Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques - statistics & numerical data Nursing Patients Polymerase chain reaction Quasi-experimental methods Stem cell transplantation Stem cells
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