Alerting Physicians during Electronic Order Entry Effectively Reduces Unnecessary Repeat PCR Testing for Clostridium difficile

Hospital information systems (HIS) alerts restricting repeat Clostridium difficile PCR ordering by physicians in patients with a prior result within 7 days eliminated 91% of repeat tests, from 14.5% (282/1,949) repeats preintervention to 1.3% (135/10,285) postintervention. HIS alerting is an effecti...

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Main Authors: Luo, Robert F., Spradley, Suzanne, Banaei, Niaz
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013
Subjects:
Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3889786/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23985918
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01724-13
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