The Effects of a Systemwide Diagnostic Stewardship Change on West Nile Virus Disease Ordering Practices.
Andrew H KarabaPaul W BlairKevin MartinMustapha O SaheedKaren C CarrollMichael J BorowitzPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2019)
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.