Evaluation of different antimicrobial stewardship models at a rehabilitation hospital: An interrupted time series (ITS) study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate different prospective audit-and-feedback models on antimicrobial prescribing at a rehabilitation hospital.

Design

Retrospective interrupted time series (ITS) and qualitative methods.

Setting

A 178-bed rehabilitation hospital within an academic health sciences center.

Methods

ITS analysis was used to analyze monthly days of therapy (DOT) per 1,000 patient days (PD) and monthly urine cultures ordered per 1,000 PD. We compared 2 sequential intervention periods to the baseline: (1) a period when a dedicated antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) pharmacist performed prospective audit and feedback and provided urine culture education followed by (2) a period when ward pharmacists performing audit and feedback. We conducted an electronic survey with ph

SUBMITTER: Curran JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614904 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature