TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of diagnostic stewardship interventions in the collection process of fungal blood cultures
AU - Chavez, Miguel A.
AU - Munigala, Satish
AU - Burnham, Carey Ann D.
AU - Yarbrough, Melanie L.
AU - Squires, Crystal
AU - Fox, Josephine
AU - Gasama, Heather
AU - Hsueh, Kevin
AU - Warren, David K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2023.
PY - 2024/3/6
Y1 - 2024/3/6
N2 - We implemented 2 interventions to improve utilization and contamination at our institution: kits to improve appropriate sample collection and an electronic order alert displaying appropriate indications of fungal blood cultures. An electronic order alert when ordering fungal blood cultures was associated with decreased utilization without decrease in positivity rate.
AB - We implemented 2 interventions to improve utilization and contamination at our institution: kits to improve appropriate sample collection and an electronic order alert displaying appropriate indications of fungal blood cultures. An electronic order alert when ordering fungal blood cultures was associated with decreased utilization without decrease in positivity rate.
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U2 - 10.1017/ice.2023.182
DO - 10.1017/ice.2023.182
M3 - Article
C2 - 37800346
AN - SCOPUS:85174327369
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 45
SP - 384
EP - 386
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 3
ER -