The impact of an electronic medical record nudge on reducing testing for hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection.

Jessica R Howard-AndersonMary Elizabeth SextonChad RobichauxZanthia WileyJay B VarkeySujit SuchindranBenjamin AlbrechtK Ashley JonesScott K FridkinJesse T Jacob

Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2020)

An EMR nudge to minimize inappropriate ordering for C. difficile was effective at reducing HO-CDI orders, and likely contributed to decreasing the inappropriate HO-CDI order rate after the intervention.

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