Diagnostic Stewardship in Clinical Microbiology, Essential Partner to Antimicrobial Stewardship

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BACKGROUND: Diagnostic stewardship is an important partner to antimicrobial stewardship.

CONTENT: Diagnostic stewardship focuses on ensuring correct diagnosis of infectious diseases while antimicrobial stewardship aims to optimize antimicrobial treatment. Both aim to improve patient outcomes. Diagnostic stewardship involves interventions that reduce testing in patients with low pretest probability, optimize a test's likelihood ratio, and seek to warn providers when suboptimal test results might have been reported.

CONCLUSION: Diagnostic stewardship interventions have been described primarily in the areas of urinary tract infection, Clostridioides difficile infection, and bloodstream infection diagnosis. However, emerging areas include pneumonia and wound infections in addition to optimization of multiplexed panel-based testing.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:68

Enthalten in:

Clinical chemistry - 68(2021), 1 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 75-82

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sullivan, Kaede V [VerfasserIn]

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Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Date Completed 13.04.2022

Date Revised 13.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/clinchem/hvab206

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335048919