Pilot of a bowel habit assessment tool to enable early identification of <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> infection.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a symptom assessment tool to assist health care providers with discussing bowel habits in a sensitive and accurate method.

Design

Pre and Post education survey.

Setting

180 bed academically affiliated Veterans Affairs Hospital.

Participants

Nurses, nursing assistants and physicians who participated in a brief educational session.

Methods

A Bowel Habits Assessment Tool (BHAT) was developed to assist health care providers in learning skills to assess patient bowel habits accurately. The BHAT was introduced at educational sessions. An anonymous pre and post survey employing a 5-point Likert scale was administered to participants.

Results

Pre-educational session survey results for Question 1 (Q1) "I am comfortable discussing patie

SUBMITTER: Kon SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11574595 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature