Karaba Andrew H, Blair Paul W, Martin Kevin, Saheed Mustapha O, Carroll Karen C, Borowitz Michael J
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 14;6(12):ofz488. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz488. eCollection 2019 Dec.
We report that removing the clinically insensitive West Nile virus CSF nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) from the electronic health record (EHR) test. This diagnostic stewardship intervention decreased costs and may have improved diagnostic yield.
我们报告了从电子健康记录(EHR)测试中移除临床不敏感的西尼罗河病毒脑脊液核酸扩增检测(NAAT)这一情况。这种诊断管理干预降低了成本,并且可能提高了诊断率。