Publications by authors named "Yolanda J Ballam"
Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) metrics.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
April 2024
Article Synopsis
- - Diagnostic stewardship aims to enhance the processes involved in ordering, collecting, performing, and reporting medical tests to improve patient outcomes and infection prevention.
- - The significance of diagnostic stewardship is underscored by its role in addressing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), which are included in public reporting and performance-based payment systems.
- - It's important to discourage inappropriate testing practices and to adapt HAI definitions to leverage new testing technologies, ensuring that tests yield actionable and clinically relevant results that benefit patient care.
Exploiting the high sensitivity of the chemiluminescence phenomenon, an accurate and sensitive point-of-care test, called the ZstatFlu-II test (ZymeTx, Inc., Oklahoma City, Okla.), was developed to detect influenza virus infections.
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