2373. Impact of a Change in Testing Strategy for Clostridioides difficile Infection on a Publicly Reported Metric and Treatment Days of Therapy

BACKGROUND: In an effort to optimize diagnostic testing for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) our health system changed from stand-alone PCR testing to a “2-step” approach wherein all positive PCR results reflexed to an EIA. We report the effects of this change on publicly reported CDI metric...

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Autores principales: Miller, Ryan, Morillas, Jose A, Sitaras, Joanne, Bako, Jacob, Neuner, Elizabeth A, Gordon, Steven M, Brizendine, Kyle D, Fraser, Thomas G
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/PMC6810230/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.2051

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810230/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.2051

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