Antimicrobial stewardship using electronic prescribing systems in hospital settings: a scoping review of interventions and outcome measures.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify interventions implemented in hospital electronic prescribing systems and the outcome measures used to monitor their impact.

Methods

We systematically searched CINAHL, EMBASE, Google Scholar and Medline using keywords in three strands: (i) population: hospital inpatient or emergency department; (ii) intervention: electronic prescribing functionality; and (iii) outcome: antimicrobial stewardship. The interventions were grouped into six themes: alerts, order sets, restriction of access, mandated documentation, embedded guidelines and automatic prescription stop. The outcome measures were organized into those that measure the quality or quantity of prescribing or clinical decision support (CDS) activity. The impact of each intervention reported was grouped

SUBMITTER: Jenkins JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9237448 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature