Reducing Clostridium difficile Colitis Rates Via Cost-Saving Diagnostic Stewardship

Christina Yen; Paul Holtom; Susan M. Butler-Wu; Noah Wald-Dickler; Ira Shulman; Brad Spellberg

doi:10.1017/ice.2018.51

Reducing Clostridium difficile Colitis Rates Via Cost-Saving Diagnostic Stewardship

Christina Yen, Paul Holtom, Susan M. Butler-Wu, Noah Wald-Dickler, Ira Shulman, Brad Spellberg

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We conducted a quality improvement project at a large public tertiary-care academic hospital to reduce reported hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) rates. We introduced diagnostic stewardship and provider education, resulting in a 2-fold reduction in C. difficile nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) orders and markedly lower hospital CDI rate.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	734-736
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	39
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.51
State	Published - Jun 1 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Epidemiology
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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