Gut Check: Clostridium Difficile Testing and Treatment in the Molecular Testing Era

Overview

Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health

Date 2015 Jan 31

PMID 25633006

Citations 18

Authors

Whitney R Buckel

Edina Avdic

Karen C Carroll

Vidhya Gunaseelan

Eric Hadhazy

Sara E Cosgrove

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Abstract

We evaluated the impact of nursing education and stewardship interventions on Clostridium difficile testing and treatment appropriateness. Diarrhea documentation increased for those with positive tests (45% to 70%); pretreatment laxative use decreased (50% to 19%). Appropriate treatment increased for severe infection (57% to 93%), but all asymptomatically colonized patients were treated.

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