Diagnostic stewardship for testing in an acute care hospital: A quality improvement intervention.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention on healthcare-associated infections (HAI).

Design: Quality improvement study.

Setting: Two urban acute care hospitals.

Transmission visualizations of healthcare infection clusters: A scoping review.

Objective: To evaluate infectious pathogen transmission data visualizations in outbreak publications.

Design: Scoping review.

Methods: Medline was searched for outbreak investigations of infectious diseases within healthcare facilities that included ≥1 data visualization of transmission using data observable by an infection preventionist showing temporal and/or spatial relationships.