Assessing an intervention to improve the safety of automatic stop orders for inpatient antimicrobials

Assessing an intervention to improve the safety of automatic stop orders for inpatient antimicrobials

Summary: Background: Automatic stop orders (ASOs) for antimicrobials have been recommended as a component of antimicrobial stewardship programs, but may result in unintentional treatment interruption due to failure of providers to re-order an antimicrobial medication. We examined the impact of a mu...

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Main Authors: Lauren Dutcher, Alyssa Yeager, Yevgeniy Gitelman, Steven Morgan, Jillian Dougherty Laude, Shawn Binkley, Amanda Binkley, Christo Cimino, Lindsay McDonnell, Stephen Saw, Valerie Cluzet, Ebbing Lautenbach, Keith W. Hamilton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Infection Prevention in Practice
Subjects:
Antimicrobial stewardship
Automatic stop order
Antibiotic stewardship
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590088920300263

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