Diagnostic Stewardship

Diagnostic stewardship is intended to improve clinical decision-making by making the diagnostic process more effective, efficient, safe, and patient-centred. Diagnostic stewardship may help reduce overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, and misdiag…

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Diagnostic stewardship is intended to improve clinical decision-making by making the diagnostic process more effective, efficient, safe, and patient-centred. Diagnostic stewardship may help reduce overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, and misdiagnosis. Diagnostic stewardship aims to ensure the right diagnostic test is used for the right patient at the right time. Diagnostic stewardship is treated as a clinical concept that can apply beyond microbiology and antimicrobial stewardship.