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Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.; Hoenigl, Martin; Koehler, Philipp; Kumar, Anil; Lagrou, Katrien; Lass‐Flörl, Cornelia; Meis, Jacques F.; Menon, Vidya; Rautemaa‐Richardson, Riina; Cornely, Oliver A.

EQUAL Candida Score: An ECMM score derived from current guidelines to measure QUAlity of Clinical Candidaemia Management

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: EQUAL Candida Score: An ECMM score derived from current guidelines to measure QUAlity of Clinical Candidaemia Management
  • Contributor: Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.; Hoenigl, Martin; Koehler, Philipp; Kumar, Anil; Lagrou, Katrien; Lass‐Flörl, Cornelia; Meis, Jacques F.; Menon, Vidya; Rautemaa‐Richardson, Riina; Cornely, Oliver A.
  • Published: Wiley, 2018
  • Published in: Mycoses, 61 (2018) 5, Seite 326-330
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/myc.12746
  • ISSN: 0933-7407; 1439-0507
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  • Description: SummaryCandida species frequently cause blood stream infections and are reported to be the third to tenth most commonly isolated pathogens. Guidelines and standardised treatment algorithms provided by professional organisations aim to facilitate decision‐making regarding diagnosis, management and treatment of candidaemia. In routine clinical practise, however, it may be challenging to comply with these guidelines. The reasons include lack of familiarity or feasibility to adherence, but also their length and complexity. There is no tool to measure guideline adherence currently. To provide such a tool, we reviewed the current guidelines provided by the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and selected the strongest recommendations for management quality as the bases for our scoring tool. Factors incorporated were diagnostic (blood cultures, echocardiography, ophthalmoscopy, species identification) and follow‐up procedures (repeat blood cultures until negative result) as well as key treatment parameters (echinocandin treatment, step down to fluconazole depending on susceptibility result, CVC removal). The EQUAL Candida Score weighs and aggregates factors recommended for the ideal management of candidaemia and provides a tool for antifungal stewardship as well as for measuring guideline adherence.