Diagnostic stewardship helps reduce C. difficile at children’s hospital

Diagnostic stewardship, along with targeted prevention efforts and a testing and treatment clinical care pathway, reduced hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile by more than 50% in a children’s hospital, researchers reported. 

Source: Cotter JM, et al. Pediatrics. 2024;doi:10.1542/peds.2023-061981.