Integrating rapid pathogen identification and antimicrobial stewardship significantly decreases hospital costs.

Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1247-1254

  Perez, Katherine K ^a   Olsen, Randall J ^b   Musick, William L ^b   Cernoch, Patricia L ^b   Davis, James R ^b   Land, Geoffrey A ^b   Peterson, Leif E ^b   Musser, James M ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886452616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0651-OA     Document Type: Article

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