Computer-Assisted Antimicrobial Recommendations for Optimal Therapy: Analysis of Prescribing Errors in an Antimicrobial Stewardship Trial. (2nd June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schwartz, David N.; McConeghy, Kevin W.; Lyles, Rosie D.; Wu, Ulysses; Glowacki, Robert C.; Itokazu, Gail S.; Kieszkowski, Piotr; Xiang, Yingxu; Hota, Bala; Weinstein, Robert A.
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 38:Number 7(2017)
• Page Start: 857
• Page End: 859
• Publication Date: 2017-06-02
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract : Clinician education and prospective audit and feedback interventions, deployed separately and concurrently, did not reduce antimicrobial use errors or rates compared to a control group of general medicine inpatients at our public hospital. Additional research is needed to define the optimal scope and intensity of hospital antimicrobial stewardship interventions. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:857–859