Laboratory Testing, Diagnostic Coding, and Treatment for Electronic Identification of Clostridioides difficile Infection
Stevens V, Benin A, Dantes R, Khader K, Nugent S, Lewis J, Adam T, Zhang R, Fu S, Jones M, Pollock D, Waisbren S. Laboratory Testing, Diagnostic Coding, and Treatment for Electronic Identification of Clostridioides difficile Infection. Infection Control And Hospital Epidemiology 2020, 41: s309-s309. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.897.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClostridioides difficile infectionPositive laboratory testsOral vancomycinICD codesPositive testElectronic health recordsCDI eventsDifficile infectionDiagnostic codingVeterans Affairs Health SystemHealth recordsProportion of patientsICD-10-CM codesPrior positive testLaboratory testsLong-term carePossibility of treatmentAccompanying treatmentInpatient courseDifficile testingRetrospective cohortTreatment initiationNinth RevisionRecurrent episodesDiagnosis codes