Single Academic Center Experience of Unrestricted β-d-Glucan Implementation

We investigated serum β-d-glucan (BDG) testing among non-neutropenic adult inpatients at an academic center where the test is unrestricted. BDG orders were inappropriate in 49% of cases due to absence of predisposing host factors or clinical picture consistent with fungal infection. Providers’ knowl...

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Autores principales: Fabre, Valeria, Markou, Theodore, DeMallie, Kathryn, Mehta, Seema, Shoham, Shmuel, Tamma, Pranita D, Zhang, Sean, Cosgrove, Sara E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy195
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author Fabre, Valeria
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description We investigated serum β-d-glucan (BDG) testing among non-neutropenic adult inpatients at an academic center where the test is unrestricted. BDG orders were inappropriate in 49% of cases due to absence of predisposing host factors or clinical picture consistent with fungal infection. Providers’ knowledge about BDG was insufficient.
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spelling pubmed-61206692018-09-05 Single Academic Center Experience of Unrestricted β-d-Glucan Implementation Fabre, Valeria Markou, Theodore DeMallie, Kathryn Mehta, Seema Shoham, Shmuel Tamma, Pranita D Zhang, Sean Cosgrove, Sara E Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We investigated serum β-d-glucan (BDG) testing among non-neutropenic adult inpatients at an academic center where the test is unrestricted. BDG orders were inappropriate in 49% of cases due to absence of predisposing host factors or clinical picture consistent with fungal infection. Providers’ knowledge about BDG was insufficient. Oxford University Press 2018-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6120669/ /pubmed/30186888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy195 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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