ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2023
Improving Early Recognition of Coccidioidomycosis in Urgent Care Clinics: Analysis of an Implemented Education Program.
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- Patient and caregiver experiences of barriers to longitudinal care in coccidioidal meningitis in California's central valley: a qualitative study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Coccidioidomycosis Testing Among Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- When should coccidioidomycosis be in the differential?ASM case reports · 2025Article
- Improving Coccidioidomycosis Testing for Emergency Department Patients With Suspect Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Analysis of Provider Attitudes and the Effect of a Targeted Intervention.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Challenges Facing Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in the Endemic Region for Coccidioidomycosis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Review
- The Known and Unknown "Knowns" of Human Susceptibility to Coccidioidomycosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Musculoskeletal manifestations of lower-extremity coccidioidomycosis: a case series.Journal of bone and joint infection · 2024Article
- Genetic and Other Determinants for the Severity of Coccidioidomycosis: A Clinician's Perspective.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: Only 0.2% of coccidioidomycosis (CM) diagnoses were made in patients (pts) with pneumonia (PNA) in urgent care (UC), because they were not being tested for CM. Our objective in this study was to improve CM testing rates. Methods: This was a time series of clinician practice before and after an intervention that occurred at UC clinics in Phoenix and Tucson Arizona. All patients in UC were >18 years old. We included information about CM in periodic educational activities for clinicians. Coccidioidal serologic testing (CST), CST results, and their relation to Results: Urgent care received 2.1 million visits from 1.5 million patients. The CST orders per 10 Conclusions: Routine quality improvement activities have significantly but only partially improved rates of testing pts with PNA for CM in UC clinics located in a highly endemic area. Innovative strategies may be needed to improve current practice. Also in our region, EN, independent of PNA, is a strong predictor of CM.
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