Open AccessImpact of an electronic hard-stop clinical decision support tool to limit repeat Clostridioides difficile toxin enzyme immunoassay testing on test utilization
Author(s) -
Jennie H. Kwon,
Kimberly A. Reske,
Tiffany Hink,
Ronald Jackups,
Carey Ann D. Burnham,
Erik R. Dubberke
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
infection control and hospital epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.243
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1559-6834
pISSN - 0899-823X
DOI - 10.1017/ice.2019.275
Subject(s) - clostridioides , immunoassay , toxin , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , immunology , antibody
We performed an intervention evaluating the impact of an electronic hard-stop clinical decision support tool on repeat Clostridioides difficile (CD) toxin enzyme immunoassay (T-EIA) testing. The CD testing rate and number of admissions with repeat tests decreased significantly postintervention (P < .01 for both); the percentage of positive tests was unchanged (P = .27).