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Optimizing Diagnostic Stewardship: The Clinician’s Perspective

Recommendations focus on reducing unnecessary testing and treatment while improving diagnostic accuracy.

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Dr. Kaede Ota Sullivan emphasized the importance of diagnostic stewardship programs at the AMP 2025 annual meeting in Boston. By optimizing test ordering, performing, and reporting processes, clinicians and laboratory professionals can improve patient outcomes and reduce unnecessary treatments. Using Clostridium difficile testing data as an example, Dr. Sullivan highlighted that 42% of cases were misdiagnosed, leading to excessive healthcare costs and potential patient harm. Success in diagnostic stewardship requires multidisciplinary collaboration and adherence to institutional guidelines.

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Optimizing Diagnostic Stewardship: The Clinician’s Perspective

Recommendations focus on reducing unnecessary testing and treatment while improving diagnostic accuracy.

  • by Jim Gallagher, senior managing editor

  • November 15, 2025

  • 4 min

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