177. Use of Electronic Best Practice Alert (BPA) to Reduce Inappropriate Testing for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) at a Tertiary Care Center

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile assays are unable to differentiate between active infection and asymptomatic carriage. Failure to account for noninfectious causes of diarrhea in hospitalized patients may contribute to overdiagnosis of CDI, leading to unnecessary treatment and increased cost of car...

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Autores principales: Mills, John P, Chang, Robert, Rao, Krishna, Zimmerman, Chris, Yoon, Hee-Won, Dombecki, Carolyn, Washer, Laraine L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254553/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.190

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254553/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.190

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