Curbing inappropriate C. difficile treatment in patients receiving concomitant laxatives
Fields, Paige; David, Christopher; Choksi, Anish; Pettit, Natasha N.; Lew, Alison K.; Pisano, Jennifer; Nguyen, Cynthia T.
2025

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Abstract

In the setting of universal Clostridioides difficile screening, we implemented an alert that triggered when C. difficile treatment was ordered in patients who recently received laxatives. This resulted in C. difficile treatment avoidance in 37% of patients and was associated with drug cost savings of $143,905 over a 10-month period.

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Title
Curbing inappropriate C. difficile treatment in patients receiving concomitant laxatives
Author
Fields, Paige : University of Chicago
David, Christopher : University of Chicago
Choksi, Anish : University of Chicago : (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-6054)
Pettit, Natasha N. : University of Chicago : (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8937-8039)
Lew, Alison K. : University of Chicago : (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7993-1814)
Pisano, Jennifer : University of Chicago : (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-3731)
Nguyen, Cynthia T. : University of Chicago : (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8530-6890)
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Article
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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2025.25
Publication Date
2025-02-17
Language
English
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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2025-03-02

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