Leveraging Diagnostic Stewardship to Advance Appropriate Diagnostic Use

In addition to discussing tactics that hospital systems, federal legislators, and other stakeholders may use to promote diagnostic stewardship, this short highlights the significance of integrating diagnostic stewardship into already-existing antimicrobial stewardship programs. Furthermore, this brief provides

methods to promote diagnostic stewardship in health system policies and procedures, encourage diagnostic stewardship with payments and coverage, develop diagnostic stewardship guidelines, fund research to enhance diagnostic stewardship, and bolster the function and clout of public health authorities.