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Revision as of 11:56, 2010 December 1
Purpose
To find out if early notification and involvement by Infectious Disease of positive blood cultures will have an impact on patient outcome.
Lead
- lead contact for this project at the requestor's end
- Dr. John Embil Director, Infection Diseases Program.
- Terry Wuerz - resident physician
- Con Marks - Database Program
Study Run Times
- Approved by Dr Roberts: January 2010
- Start date: January 17,2011
- Review Date: 30 days after start date
- Preliminary End Date: 1 month to 3 months after start date
Site and Ward involved
This study will run at HSC only
- Control units: H4
- Study units: A4 and D4
Elements collected in Tmp file
For all patients who are on the lab list Template:Discussion (what is the actual name of the list?) for the study wards:
- "Positive Culture": date and time of positive culture, for all patients in study
- "ID Consult": date and time Infectious Disease Department consult response; if no response or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "no consult response"
- "Order": data and time order written to change to appropriate antibiotic, if change is needed; if no change or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "not available"
- "Antibiotic": date and time new antibiotic is given; if no new antibiotic is given or patient leaves, deceased or AMA then check box "no new antibiotic"
Consistency Checks
Tmp Checker will check for the following: If "Positive Culture" entry is present for a patient, then there will have to be either a date or a checkbox for the other three entries.
Send mode
Will data be sent for every patient at every send.
Data Collection Method
<Tina will need to fill this in once details about the project are clear> Template:Discussion
Statistician
- What data will the statistician need to provide? Template:Discussion