Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship initiative for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection

Caitlin Bettger; Bernadette Thompson; John Kiley; Lisa Townsend

doi:10.1017/ice.2025.10343

Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship initiative for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection

Caitlin Bettger^*
, Bernadette Thompson
, John Kiley
, Lisa Townsend

^*Corresponding author for this work

Medicine

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

We aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile (HO-CDI) infection by removing the result for C. difficile from the multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The intervention resulted in an increase in positive PCR tests meeting testing criteria and decrease in median number of HO-CDI per month.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36-38
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	47
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2025.10343
State	Published - 1 Jan 2026

Access to Document

10.1017/ice.2025.10343

Cite this

@article{9563cd153989415eb2240b2916a39939,

title = "Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship initiative for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection",

abstract = "We aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile (HO-CDI) infection by removing the result for C. difficile from the multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The intervention resulted in an increase in positive PCR tests meeting testing criteria and decrease in median number of HO-CDI per month.",

author = "Caitlin Bettger and Bernadette Thompson and John Kiley and Lisa Townsend",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.",

year = "2026",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1017/ice.2025.10343",

language = "English",

volume = "47",

pages = "36--38",

journal = "Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology",

issn = "0899-823X",

publisher = "Cambridge University Press",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship initiative for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection

AU - Bettger, Caitlin

AU - Thompson, Bernadette

AU - Kiley, John

AU - Townsend, Lisa

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

PY - 2026/1/1

Y1 - 2026/1/1

N2 - We aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile (HO-CDI) infection by removing the result for C. difficile from the multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The intervention resulted in an increase in positive PCR tests meeting testing criteria and decrease in median number of HO-CDI per month.

AB - We aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile (HO-CDI) infection by removing the result for C. difficile from the multiplex gastrointestinal polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The intervention resulted in an increase in positive PCR tests meeting testing criteria and decrease in median number of HO-CDI per month.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021269440

U2 - 10.1017/ice.2025.10343

DO - 10.1017/ice.2025.10343

M3 - Article

C2 - 41199573

AN - SCOPUS:105021269440

SN - 0899-823X

VL - 47

SP - 36

EP - 38

JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

IS - 1

ER -

Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship initiative for healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this