Optimizing testing for Clostridium difficile infection: a quality improvement project Journal Article uri icon
Overview
abstract
  • Overtesting for Clostridium difficile may result in increased health care facility-onset C difficile infection LabID events. Our quality improvement project optimized testing through standardization of laboratory processes, electronic health record clinical decision support, and real-time monitoring. Our intervention resulted in a 59% reduction in health care facility-onset C difficile infection LabID events.

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    publication date
  • 2019
  • published in
    Research
    keywords
  • Clinical Decision Support Systems
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Quality Improvement
  • Additional Document Info
    volume
  • 47
  • issue
  • 3