Safety of Automatic End Dates for Antimicrobial Orders to Facilitate Stewardship.

Autor: Ross RK; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Beus JM; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Metjian TA; Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Office of Safety and Medical Operations, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Localio AR; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Shelov ED; Division of General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Desai BR; Division of General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., O'Neill SP; Medication Safety, Office of Safety and Medical Operations, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Zaoutis TE; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Gerber JS; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Office of Safety and Medical Operations, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2016 Aug; Vol. 37 (8), pp. 974-978. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 May 13.
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.103
Abstrakt: Following implementation of automatic end dates for antimicrobial orders to facilitate antimicrobial stewardship at a large, academic children's hospital, no differences were observed in patient mortality, length of stay, or readmission rates, even among patients with documented bacteremia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:974-978.
Databáze: MEDLINE