526. An EMR-Based Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention for GI mPCR Aimed at Reducing Inappropriate C. difficile Tests

An intervention aimed at reducing plagiarism in undergraduate nursing students.

Plagiarism is a current and developing problem in the tertiary education sector where students access information and reproduce it as their own. It is identified as occurring in many tertiary level degrees including nursing and allied health profession degrees. Nursing specifically, is a profession where standards and ethics are required and honesty is paramount. The aim of this study was to ev...

Reliability of biopsy-based diagnostic tests for Helicobacter pylori after treatment aimed at its eradication.

OBJECTIVE Recurrence of Heliobacter pylori after apparently successful treatment mostly represents resurgence of the infection, rather than a new one. Therefore, the reliability of biopsy-based tests after treatment was investigated. METHODS Four weeks or more after treatment, antral biopsy samples were taken for culture, histology, urease test and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and a corpu...

Proposing a Novel Configuration for CGSs Aimed at Reducing Energy Consumption and Exergy Destruction

A CGS is of the most important parts in natural gas transmission pipelines in which the high inlet natural gas (NG) pressure is reduced to much lower value by employing a throttling valve. This pressure drop causes hydrate forming, preventing stable NG flow through the pipeline. To prevent hydrate forming, NG is usually preheated by heaters which burns remarkable amount of NG. In this work, a n...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention on Reducing the Incidence Rate of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

Background. The incidence rate of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection (HA-CDI) is estimated at 1 in 100 patients. Antibiotic exposure is the most consistently reported risk factor. Strategies to reduce HA-CDI have focused on reducing antibiotic utilization. Prospective audit and feedback (PAF) is a commonly used antimicrobial stewardship intervention (ASi). The impact of this ...

The Impact of Diagnostic Stewardship on Clostridium difficile Infections