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Alerting Physicians during Electronic Order Entry Effectively Reduces Unnecessary Repeat PCR Testing for Clostridium difficile. Journal of clinical microbiology Luo, R. F., Spradley, S., Banaei, N. 2013; 51 (11): 3872-3874

Abstract

Hospital information systems (HIS) alerts restricting repeat Clostridium difficile PCR ordering by physicians in patients with a prior result within 7 days eliminated 91% of repeat tests, from 14.5% (282/1,949) repeats preintervention to 1.3% (135/10,285) postintervention. HIS alerting is an effective, targeted, patient-specific tool for improving the quality and utilization of C. difficile results.

View details for DOI 10.1128/JCM.01724-13

View details for PubMedID 23985918