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2343. How Smart Is the Chart? Accuracy of the Medical Record in Documenting Diarrhea in Patients Tested for Clostridium difficile Infection

BACKGROUND: Inappropriate testing for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) may result in diagnosis of CDI in asymptomatic carriers with diarrhea due to other causes such as laxatives. Current guidelines suggest that periodic chart review may be useful to assess the appropriateness of CDI testing, b...

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Autores principales: Pora, Gavriella, Karen Ng Wong, Y, Jury, Lucy, Donskey, Curtis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810176/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.2021