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Testing Stewardship: A ‘Hard Stop’ to Reduce Inappropriate C. diff Testing

BACKGROUND: Patients may be over-diagnosed with C. difficile infection (CDI) due to colonization, especially if laxatives are used. We had implemented an alert to prompt providers to discontinue C. diff orders in the setting of laxative use. This initially decreased orders by about 25%, but became l...

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Autores principales: Drees, Marci, Dressler, Robert, Taylor, Kim, Ayala, Jamie, Kahigian, Gaynelle, Briody, Carol, Stephan, Brian, Singh-Patel, S Rani, Noor, Sajid, Eppes, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631575/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.002