The Effects of a Systemwide Diagnostic Stewardship Change on West Nile Virus Disease Ordering Practices

We report that removing the clinically insensitive West Nile virus CSF nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) from the electronic health record (EHR) test. This diagnostic stewardship intervention decreased costs and may have improved diagnostic yield.

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Autores principales: Karaba, Andrew H, Blair, Paul W, Martin, Kevin, Saheed, Mustapha O, Carroll, Karen C, Borowitz, Michael J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32128331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz488
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author Karaba, Andrew H
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spelling pubmed-70479442020-03-03 The Effects of a Systemwide Diagnostic Stewardship Change on West Nile Virus Disease Ordering Practices Karaba, Andrew H Blair, Paul W Martin, Kevin Saheed, Mustapha O Carroll, Karen C Borowitz, Michael J Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We report that removing the clinically insensitive West Nile virus CSF nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) from the electronic health record (EHR) test. This diagnostic stewardship intervention decreased costs and may have improved diagnostic yield. Oxford University Press 2019-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7047944/ /pubmed/32128331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz488 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. 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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Karaba, Andrew H
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The Effects of a Systemwide Diagnostic Stewardship Change on West Nile Virus Disease Ordering Practices
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047944/
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