Quality Improvement Interventions and Implementation Strategies for Urine Culture Stewardship in the Acute Care Setting: Advances and Challenges.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this article is to highlight how and why urinalyses and urine cultures are misused, review quality improvement interventions to optimize urine culture utilization, and highlight how to implement successful, sustainable interventions to improve urine culture practices in the acute care setting. RECENT FINDINGS: Quality improvement initiatives aimed at reducing inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria often focus on optimizing urine test utilization (i.e., urine culture stewardship). Urine culture stewardship interventions in acute care hospitals span the spectrum of quality improvement initiatives, ranging from strong systems-based interventions like suppression of urine culture results to weaker interventions that focus on clinician education alone. While most urine culture stewardship interventions have met with some success, overall results are mixed, and implementation strategies to improve sustainability are not well understood. SUMMARY: Successful diagnostic stewardship interventions are based on an assessment of underlying key drivers and focus on multifaceted and complementary approaches. Individual intervention components have varying impacts on effectiveness, provider autonomy, and sustainability. The best urine culture stewardship strategies ultimately include both technical and socio-adaptive components with long-term, iterative feedback required for sustainability.
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Published In
DOI
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Volume
Issue
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Microbiology
- 4206 Public health
- 4202 Epidemiology
- 3202 Clinical sciences