Point-of-prescription interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1252-1258

  Hamilton, Keith W ^a   Gerber, Jeffrey S ^b   Moehring, Rebekah ^c,d   Anderson, Deverick J ^c,d   Calderwood, Michael S ^e   Han, Jennifer H ^a   Mehta, Jimish M ^f   Pollack, Lori A ^g   Zaoutis, Theoklis ^b   Srinivasan, Arjun ^g   Camins, Bernard C ^h   Schwartz, David N ⁱ   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial prescribing; antimicrobial stewardship; frontline; point of prescription

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG UTILIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; STANDARDS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84926638545     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ018     Document Type: Review

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