A Novel Metric to Monitor the Influence of Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Livorsi, Daniel J. ; O’Leary, Erin ; Pierce, Tamra ; Reese, Lindsey ; van Santen, Katharina L. ; Pollock, Daniel A. ; Edwards, Jonathan R. ; Srinivasan, Arjun
• Description:
  The antimicrobial use (AU) option within the National Healthcare Safety Network summarizes antimicrobial prescribing data as a standardized antimicrobial administration ratio (SAAR). A hospital's antimicrobial stewardship program found that greater involvement of an infectious disease physician in prospective audit and feedback procedures was associated with reductions in SAAR values across multiple antimicrobial categories. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:721-723.
• Subjects:
  Anti-Bacterial Agents Antimicrobial Stewardship Feedback Humans Infectious Disease Medicine Medical Audit Quality Indicators, Health Care Tertiary Care Centers
• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 38(6):721-723
• Pubmed ID:
  28473007
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7863592
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:65b9e75e9b7a94cda8e139e4e275d9f77b5a82e0742d46d46b5e45b45bbfc128
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/102182/cdc_102182_DS1.pdf
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