Automatic day-2 intervention by a multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship-team leads to multiple positive effects

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Dik, Jan Willem H ^a   Hendrix, Ron ^a,b   Lo Ten Foe, Jerome R ^a   Wilting, Kasper R ^a   Panday, Prashant N ^a   van Gemert Pijnen, Lisette E ^c   Leliveld, Annemarie M ^a   van der Palen, Job ^c,d   Friedrich, Alex W ^a   Sinha, Bhanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Medical Microbiology   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A teams; Antimicrobial prescription; Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial stewardship; Intervention study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

EID: 84936991818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00546     Document Type: Article

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