Antifungal stewardship in practice: Insights from a prospective audit and feedback program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify characteristics of antifungal prospective audit and feedback (PAF) and to compare rates of PAF recommendation and acceptance between antifungal and antibiotic agents.

Design

Retrospective cohort study of antifungal and antibiotic audits by a children's hospital antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) from November 1, 2020, to October 31, 2022.

Methods

Antimicrobial audit data were retrieved from the ASP data warehouse. We characterized antifungal PAF using descriptive statistics. We then compared the overall rates of PAF recommendation and recommendation acceptance between antifungals and antibiotics. We also compared the differences in antifungal and antibiotic PAF recommendation and acceptance rates across various factors, including infectious

SUBMITTER: Bio LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755142 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature