Does an educational session with an infectious diseases physician reduce the use of inappropriate antibiotic therapy for inpatients with positive urine culture results? a controlled before-and-after study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 596-599

  Pavese, Patricia ^b   Saurel, Nathalie ^a   Labarère, José ^a,c,d   Decouchon, Corinne ^b   Vittoz, Jean Philippe ^c   Foroni, Luc ^a   Maurin, Max ^a   François, Patrice ^c,d  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Departments of Infectiou Diseases Tropical Medicine and Pharmacy

^c Quality of Care Unit   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIURIA; CULTURE MEDIA; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 67651098972     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597514     Document Type: Article

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