Diagnostic Stewardship: Opportunity for a Laboratory-Infectious Diseases Partnership

Robin Patel; Ferric C. Fang

doi:10.1093/cid/ciy077

Diagnostic Stewardship: Opportunity for a Laboratory-Infectious Diseases Partnership

Robin Patel, Ferric C. Fang

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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Abstract

Recent advances in microbial diagnostics are providing clinicians with information about microbes causing infections and their resistance to antimicrobial agents more rapidly than ever before. Diagnostic stewardship refers to the appropriate use of laboratory testing to guide patient management, including treatment, in order to optimize clinical outcomes and limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Fulfilling the promise of diagnostic stewardship requires a seamless partnership between clinical laboratories, pharmacists, and infectious diseases clinicians, so that appropriate tests are ordered and diagnostic information is translated into appropriate management in real time.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	799-801
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	67
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy077
State	Published - Aug 16 2018

Keywords

clinical microbiology
culture-independent.
diagnostics
infectious diseases
stewardship

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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