Advancing Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis

Clinical Impact of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Plasma Cell-Free DNA for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

(2020) Catherine A Hogan et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Antimicrobial Treatment Duration in Sepsis and Serious Infections

(2020) Lindsay M Busch et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Role of Rapid Diagnostics in Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Sepsis

(2020) Taryn A Eubank et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Procalcitonin to guide antibiotic decision making

(2019) Angela Branche et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Prescriber Behavior in Clostridioides difficile Testing: A 3-Hospital Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention

(2019) Masako Mizusawa et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis

(2019) Michael R. Wilson et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Optimization of the Order Menu in the Electronic Health Record Facilitates Test Patterns Consistent With Recommendations in the Choosing Wisely Initiative

(2019) Courtney Barry et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

From the Pipeline to the Bedside: Advances and Challenges in Clinical Metagenomics

(2019) Augusto Dulanto Chiang et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Nudging In MicroBiology Laboratory Evaluation (NIMBLE): A scoping review

(2019) Bradley J. Langford et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Procalcitonin

(2019) Bachar Hamade et al.   CRITICAL CARE CLINICS

Effectiveness of Practices to Support Appropriate Laboratory Test Utilization

(2018) Matthew Rubinstein et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

The Clinical Utility of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Nasal Screening to Rule Out MRSA Pneumonia: A Diagnostic Meta-analysis With Antimicrobial Stewardship Implications

(2018) Diane M Parente et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Efficacy and Safety of Procalcitonin Guidance in Patients With Suspected or Confirmed Sepsis

(2018) Irena Iankova et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

The host response as a tool for infectious disease diagnosis and management

(2018) Emily C. Lydon et al.   EXPERT REVIEW OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

Point-Counterpoint: Active surveillance for carriers of toxigenic Clostridium difficile should be performed to guide prevention efforts

(2018) L. Clifford McDonald et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Adherence to a procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment protocol in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock

(2018) Andreas Hohn et al.   Annals of Intensive Care

Diagnostic Stewardship—Leveraging the Laboratory to Improve Antimicrobial Use

(2017) Daniel J. Morgan et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Point-Counterpoint: What Is the Optimal Approach for Detection of Clostridium difficile Infection?

(2017) Ferric C. Fang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Real-Time Electronic Tracking of Diarrheal Episodes and Laxative Therapy Enables Verification of Clostridium difficile Clinical Testing Criteria and Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infection Rates

(2017) Cynthia Y. Truong et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Use of PNA FISH for blood cultures growing Gram-positive cocci in chains without a concomitant antibiotic stewardship intervention does not improve time to appropriate antibiotic therapy

(2016) Sara E. Cosgrove et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Impact of microbiology cascade reporting on antibiotic de-escalation in cefazolin-susceptible Gram-negative bacteremia

(2016) L. S. Johnson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Evaluation of a Novel Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Urine Cultures in Intensive Care Units at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Maryland, 2011–2014

(2016) Lauren Epstein et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Implementation of Rapid Molecular Infectious Disease Diagnostics: the Role of Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Stewardship

(2016) Kevin Messacar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Duration of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit

(2016) Gabor Zilahi et al.   Journal of Thoracic Disease

Validity, Accuracy, and Predictive Value of Urinary Tract Infection Signs and Symptoms in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury on Intermittent Catheterization

(2016) Luiz M. Massa et al.   JOURNAL OF SPINAL CORD MEDICINE

Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis (TRIPOD): The TRIPOD Statement

(2015) Gary S. Collins et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Use of a Combination Biomarker Algorithm To Identify Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients with Suspected Sepsis at Very Low Likelihood of Bacterial Infection

(2015) Jennifer H. Han et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008

(2009) R Phillip Dellinger et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE