Improved utilization of operating room acid-fast bacilli and fungal culture ordering through “quick button” modification
Removing OR quick buttons significantly reduced unnecessary AFB and fungal culture orders and improved TAT without reducing detection of clinically important infections. This is the first study to evaluate the impact of EMR quick buttons on -microbiology utilization.
Authors
- R Robert Cullen
- Gregory J. Berry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-6826)
- Lars F. Westblade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3079-7674)
- C. Goss
- Sarah M. Russell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-9641)
- Daniel A. Green (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-1319)
- Shivani Satia
- David R. Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9943-7557)
- Yanbin Kuang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3041-7854)
- Kek Heng Chua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-9994)
- Elizabeth F. Stone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4148-7957)
- Jennifer Pfeiffer
- Fann Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4942-7264)
Institutions
- Queens College, CUNY (US)
- Westchester Medical Center (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- New York Hospital Queens (US)
- College of Westchester (US)
- Presbyterian Hospital (US)
- New York Proton Center (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Published
- 2025-11-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqaf116
- Primary Topic
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00