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Optimizing Inpatient Urine Culture Ordering Practices Using the Electronic Medical Record: A Pilot Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2016

Daniel Shirley ,
Harry Scholtz ,
Kurt Osterby ,
Jackson Musuuza ,
Barry Fox  and
Nasia Safdar
Daniel Shirley*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Harry Scholtz
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Kurt Osterby
Affiliation:
UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Jackson Musuuza
Affiliation:
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
Barry Fox
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence to Daniel Shirley, MD, MS, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Medical Foundation Centennial Building 5th floor, 1685 Highland Ave, Madison, WI ([email protected]).
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Abstract

A prospective quasi-experimental before-and-after study of an electronic medical record–anchored intervention of embedded education on appropriate urine culture indications and indication selection reduced the number of urine cultures ordered for catheterized patients at an academic medical center. This intervention could be a component of CAUTI-reduction bundles.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:486–488

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , April 2017 , pp. 486 - 488
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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