An antibiotic stewardship initiative focused on community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) in outpatient clinics and urgent care centers: a 2023-2024 community health system experience.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This before-after study aimed to evaluate whether an order-set intervention would improve CABP-guideline concordance among outpatients.

Setting

This study included adult patients presenting to outpatient clinics (n = 92) and urgent care centers (n = 39) within a community-based health system without a formal outpatient antibiotic stewardship program (ASP).

Intervention

The intervention consisted of an antibiotic order-set and awareness campaign. Patient encounters were identified via CABP ICD-10 codes and IDSA-relevant patient comorbidities (chronic heart, lung, liver, or renal disease; diabetes mellitus; alcoholism; malignancy; asplenia) were extracted from the electronic health record. Primary outcome was to describe the proportion of patient

SUBMITTER: Asempa TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12394021 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature