Does electronic stewardship work?. (21st March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lambl, Barbara B; Kaufman, Nathan; Kurowski, Janice; O'Neill, W; Buckley Jr, Frederick; Duram, Maureen; Swartz, Barbara; Phillips, Duncan; Rein, Mitchell; Rubin, Marc
• Is Part Of: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Volume 24:Number 5(2017:Sep.)
• Page Start: 981
• Page End: 985
• Publication Date: 2017-03-21
• Subjects: antibiotic stewardship -- decision support -- Clostridium difficile infections -- community hospitals; Medical informatics -- Periodicals; Information Services -- Periodicals; Medical Informatics -- Periodicals; Médecine -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Informatica; Geneeskunde; Informatique médicale; Computer network resources; Electronic journals; 610.285
• DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1067-5027

Abstract

Abstract: Faced with national requirements to promote antimicrobial stewardship and reduce drug-resistant infections, community hospitals are challenged to make the best use of existing resources. Eighteen months after building antibiotic decision support into our electronic order platform, high-risk antibiotic use decreased by 83% ( P < .001) at our community hospital. Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections declined 24% ( P = .07).