Improving the Rate of Sufficient Sweat Collected in Infants Referred for Sweat Testing in Michigan

Objective. Sweat collected for testing should have quantity not sufficient (QNS) rate of ≤10% in babies ≤3 months of age. Michigan (MI) cystic fibrosis (CF) centers’ QNS rates were 12% to 25% in 2009. This project was initiated to reduce sweat QNS rates in MI. Methods/Steps. (a) Each center’s sweat...

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Autores principales: Abdulhamid, Ibrahim, Kleyn, Mary, Langbo, Carrie, Gregoire-Bottex, Myrtha, Schuen, John, Shanmugasundaram, Krithika, Nasr, Samya Z
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X14553625
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author Abdulhamid, Ibrahim
Kleyn, Mary
Langbo, Carrie
Gregoire-Bottex, Myrtha
Schuen, John
Shanmugasundaram, Krithika
Nasr, Samya Z
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Kleyn, Mary
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Gregoire-Bottex, Myrtha
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description Objective. Sweat collected for testing should have quantity not sufficient (QNS) rate of ≤10% in babies ≤3 months of age. Michigan (MI) cystic fibrosis (CF) centers’ QNS rates were 12% to 25% in 2009. This project was initiated to reduce sweat QNS rates in MI. Methods/Steps. (a) Each center’s sweat testing procedures were reviewed by a consultant. (b) Each center received a report with recommendations to improve QNS rates. (c) Technicians visited other participating centers to observe their procedures. Results. A total of 778 infants were identified as positive via CF newborn screening over a 2-year period. The mean age at time of sweat test was 23.2 days (SD ± 13.0 days). The overall QNS percent decreased from 14.4% to 9.5% (P = .04) during the study. Conclusion. This project and teamwork approach led to a decrease of sweat test QNS rates, opportunities to solve a common problem, and improved quality of care.
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spelling pubmed-48046762016-06-22 Improving the Rate of Sufficient Sweat Collected in Infants Referred for Sweat Testing in Michigan Abdulhamid, Ibrahim Kleyn, Mary Langbo, Carrie Gregoire-Bottex, Myrtha Schuen, John Shanmugasundaram, Krithika Nasr, Samya Z Glob Pediatr Health Original Article Objective. Sweat collected for testing should have quantity not sufficient (QNS) rate of ≤10% in babies ≤3 months of age. Michigan (MI) cystic fibrosis (CF) centers’ QNS rates were 12% to 25% in 2009. This project was initiated to reduce sweat QNS rates in MI. Methods/Steps. (a) Each center’s sweat testing procedures were reviewed by a consultant. (b) Each center received a report with recommendations to improve QNS rates. (c) Technicians visited other participating centers to observe their procedures. Results. A total of 778 infants were identified as positive via CF newborn screening over a 2-year period. The mean age at time of sweat test was 23.2 days (SD ± 13.0 days). The overall QNS percent decreased from 14.4% to 9.5% (P = .04) during the study. Conclusion. This project and teamwork approach led to a decrease of sweat test QNS rates, opportunities to solve a common problem, and improved quality of care. SAGE Publications 2014-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4804676/ /pubmed/27335913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X14553625 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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Abdulhamid, Ibrahim
Kleyn, Mary
Langbo, Carrie
Gregoire-Bottex, Myrtha
Schuen, John
Shanmugasundaram, Krithika
Nasr, Samya Z
Improving the Rate of Sufficient Sweat Collected in Infants Referred for Sweat Testing in Michigan
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title_short Improving the Rate of Sufficient Sweat Collected in Infants Referred for Sweat Testing in Michigan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X14553625
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