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Xavier Marchand-Senécal1, Ian A Brasg2, Robert Kozak1
1Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
In this controlled before-after study, wound swabs were only processed for culture, identification, and susceptibility testing if a quality metric, determined by the Q score, was met. Rejection of low-quality wound swabs resulted in a modest decrease in reflexive antibiotic initiation while reducing laboratory workload and generating few clinician requests.
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