Educational antimicrobial stewardship intervention ineffective in changing surgical prophylactic antibiotic prescribing

Surgical Infections

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 224-228

  Knox, Matthew C ^a   Edye, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INDICATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT DURATION; AGED; DRUG UTILIZATION; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84962569982     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2015.194     Document Type: Article

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