TY - JOUR
T1 - Immediate impact of healthcare-facility-onset Clostridium difficile laboratory-identified events reporting methodology change on standardized infection ratios
AU - Figueroa Castro, Carlos E.
AU - Palen, Louis
AU - Johnson, Carrie
AU - Graham, Mary Beth
AU - Letzer, David
AU - Ledeboer, Nathan
AU - Buchan, Blake
AU - Block, Timothy
AU - Seliger, Heather
AU - Singh, Siddhartha
AU - Behrens, Elizabeth
AU - Huerta, Susan
AU - Munoz-Price, L. Silvia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - In 2018, the Clostridium difficile LabID event methodology changed so that hospitals doing 2-step tests, nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) plus enzyme immunofluorescence assay (EIA), had their adjustment modified to EIA-based tests, and only positive final tests (eg, EIA) were counted in the numerator. We report the immediate impact of this methodological change at 3 Milwaukee hospitals.
AB - In 2018, the Clostridium difficile LabID event methodology changed so that hospitals doing 2-step tests, nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) plus enzyme immunofluorescence assay (EIA), had their adjustment modified to EIA-based tests, and only positive final tests (eg, EIA) were counted in the numerator. We report the immediate impact of this methodological change at 3 Milwaukee hospitals.
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U2 - 10.1017/ice.2018.241
DO - 10.1017/ice.2018.241
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055537816
VL - 39
SP - 1484
EP - 1486
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
SN - 0899-823X
IS - 12
ER -