Antibiotic stewardship strategies and antibiotic overuse after hospital discharge: Analysis of the ROAD Home Framework

Background: Antibiotics are frequently prescribed–and overprescribed–at hospital discharge, leading to adverse-events and patient harm. Our understanding of how to optimize prescribing at discharge is limited. Recently, we published the ROAD (Reducing Overuse of Antibiotics at Discharge) Home Framew...

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Main Authors: Valerie Vaughn, David Ratz, M. Todd Greene, Scott Flanders, Tejal Gandhi, Lindsay Petty, Sean Huls, Xiaomei Feng, Andrea White, Adam Hersh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-07-01
Series:Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2732494X22000845/type/journal_article