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Differences in stewardship strategies between hospitals performing well and poorly on a risk-adjusted metric for post-discharge antibiotic use.

Livorsi DJ, Merchant JA, Cho H, Goetz MB, Alexander B, Beck B, Goto M. Differences in stewardship strategies between hospitals performing well and poorly on a risk-adjusted metric for post-discharge antibiotic use. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2025 Feb 12; 1-4, DOI: 10.1017/ice.2024.237.

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Abstract:

Stewardship processes were compared across 123 hospitals that differed on a risk-adjusted post-discharge antibiotic use metric. Low-performing hospitals were less likely than high-performing hospitals to report routine interactions between their stewardship physician and pharmacist(s) (OR 0.12, 95% CI 0.03-0.55) and to have local antibiotic-prescribing guidelines (OR 0.21, 95% CI 0.05-0.93).




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