Travelling to our implementation sites to help facilitate #diagnosticstewardship for urine culturing. Added bonus thanks to National Academy of Medicine - engaging clinical pharmacists in diagnostic excellence for UTIs

How can you leverage #impsci models to improve diagnostic stewardship? Check out our new manuscript in ASHE Journal -using the COM-B model to identify barriers & facilitators to nurse #urineculture practices 📰: doi.org/10.1017/ash.20… DICON DCASIP Duke Infectious Diseases

Don't miss our talk on diagnostic #stewardship today at 11am PST in Columbia BCD at #SHEA2023! Kimberly Claeys Duke Infectious Diseases @SHEAepi

Can diagnostic stewardship (DxSt) move the needle of antibiotic use? Kimberly Claeys reviews the collaborative role of DxSt with antimicrobial stewardship to improve patient care beyond HAI metrics #SHEASpring2023

Excited to share our new pub, "From Bottle to BEDSIDE**: Implementation Considerations and AMS Considerations for Bloodstream Infection RDTs. I had the pleasure of working with Kimberly Claeys, Krutika Mediwala Hornback, J. Kristie Johnson, PhD, D(ABMM), and Ricky Smith on this! accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… 1/7

In the hospital, 50% of empiric Gram-negative antibiotics get deescalated within 5 days (usually after 1 day). Another 15% get escalated or changed. Should we be thinking about how to improve choice of empiric therapy? Kimberly Claeys Anthony Harris doi.org/10.1093/jacamr…

Chinchillas are supposed to live atop the mountains. So when a chinchilla skull turned up near Chile's coast, scientists were mystified, James Hall reports for Hakai Magazine: on.theatln.tc/byllruh

Wonderful #HVMC2023 in Montreal organized by Emily McDonald and Todd C. Lee here. I spoke on diagnostic stewardship and excited to hear Jeff Linder 🇺🇦 discuss behavioral economics soon. Hope talks will be available online... Canada! Kimberly Claeys Anthony Harris

Great work by my friend and superstar colleague Kimberly Claeys 👏👏👏

Last paper of my dissertation, supported by the amazing mentorship of Sarah K & Dan Morgan. I have gained an immense appreciation for qualitative research and its importance for #implementationscience. More to come once implementation is complete across sites!

Excited to share our manuscript: "Behavioral Strategies for #Diagnostic Stewardship" with Kimberly Claeys in Infectious Disease Clinics Topics - Implementation science theories/models/frameworks - Examples of behavioral strategies (Nudges, CDS) - Evaluation frameworks 📰authors.elsevier.com/a/1hWNg_KHOGAR…

Dan Morgan Jon Baghdadi Kimberly Claeys Emily Heil: Bacterial pneumonia is a clinical diagnosis. Maryland investigators developed a diagnosis calculator (testingwisely.com) to inform estimates of pre- and post-test probability. bit.ly/3qkE8pm

As we talk today about #equity in #stewardship remember the effects of bias on your stewards. Women stewards less likely to be listened to…SHEA Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Interested in driving meaningful change in diagnostic safety, quality, and equity? Call for Applications open for the 4th cohort of our National Academy of Medicine Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence, in partnership with CMSS. Deadline 3/1. More info: dxexscholars.nam.edu

Excited to share our SHEA Position Paper on #diagnosticstewardship to improve patient outcomes and #HAI metrics in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 📰 doi.org/10.1017/ice.20… Harjot Kaur Kimberly Claeys Dan Morgan Aaron Milstone Dan Diekema Mary Hayden

Yay!! So excited to see this in print. Thank you ASHE Journal Kimberly Claeys Dan Morgan To those setting up #DiagnosticStewardship teams: please consider a multidisciplinary approach including ID/ASP Pharmacists. Lots of work to build on in this area! #IDTwitter SIDP

Thrilled to be the Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Minnesota Antibiotic Stewardship Conference today. Grateful for incredible leaders in diagnostic stewardship: Valeria Fabre Dan Morgan Kimberly Claeys Charlotte Woods-Hill Anna Sick-Samuels Barbara Trautner and many more. health.state.mn.us/communities/on…

🆕️🔥 JAMA Internal Medicine Patient Page Sonali Advani MD, MPH, FIDSA Kimberly Claeys What Should I Know About Recurrent UTIs in Older Women? #IDXposts jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…