Quan, Kathleen A; Yim, Jennifer; Merrill, Doug; Khusbu, Usme; Madey, Keith; Dickey, Linda; Dangodara, Amish A; Rudkin, Scott E; O'Brien, Margaret; Thompson, Daniel; Parekh, Nimisha; Albers, C Gregory; Wilson, William C; Thrupp, Lauri; Bittencourt, Cassiana E; Huang, Susan S; Gohil, Shruti K

doi:10.1017/ice.2018.32

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Reductions in Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Rates Using Real-Time Automated Clinical Criteria Verification to Enforce Appropriate Testing.

2018

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C. difficile PCR testing identifies both colonized and infected patients, making it critical to only test patients that meet clinical criteria for C. difficile infection (CDI). We implemented an automated order-entry protocol that reduced inappropriate testing by 64% and hospital-onset (HO) CDI Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) from 1.62 to 0.82.

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