An audit-based, infectious disease specialist-guided antimicrobial stewardship program profoundly reduced antibiotic use without negatively affecting patient outcomes

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Nilholm, Hannah ^a   Holmstrand, Linnea ^a   Ahl, Jonas ^a   Månsson, Fredrik ^a   Odenholt, Inga ^a   Tham, Johan ^a   Melander, Eva ^b   Resman, Fredrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Infection Control ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial stewardship; Duration of antibiotic therapy; Geriatric

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 84978328069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv042     Document Type: Article

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