An evaluation of the association between an antimicrobial stewardship score and antimicrobial usage.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether an antimicrobial stewardship 'intensity' score predicts hospital antimicrobial usage.

Methods

An antimicrobial stewardship score for 44 academic medical centres was developed that comprised two main categories: resources (antimicrobial stewardship programme personnel and automated surveillance software) and strategies (preauthorization, audit with intervention and feedback, education, guidelines and clinical pathways, parenteral to oral therapy programmes, de-escalation of therapy, antimicrobial order forms and dose optimization). Multiple regression analyses were used to assess whether the composite score and also the categories were associated with either total or antimicrobial stewardship programme-target antimicrobial use as measured in da

SUBMITTER: Pakyz AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4481682 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature