Benchmarking inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment

Curbing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: What Works?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has campaigned to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for more than 20 years, yet antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections, which generally do not require antibiotic treatment, have decreased only modestly for children and not at all for adults.1,2 Physicians are aware of the problem of resistance to antibiotics, but ...

Inappropriate antibiotic use in soft tissue infections.

HYPOTHESIS Many soft tissue infections treated with surgical drainage resolve even when treated with antibiotics not active against the organism isolated from the infection. DESIGN Retrospective. SETTING Integrated Soft Tissue Infection Services clinic. PATIENTS All patients treated from July 19, 2000, to August 1, 2001, who underwent surgical drainage of a soft tissue infection and had m...

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Propensity-matched analysis of appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment.

Correspondence Table 1. Multivariate model for inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment containing all variables in the regression model.

Benchmarking Supply Chain Collaboration: An Empirical Study

Supply chain collaboration enables firms to achieve better performance. It requires close arrangements of collaborative practices among the participating members. Searching for better practices and ideas that lead to superior performance means that the chain members also need to benchmark their current collaborative practices to other collaborative supply chains. Benchmarking enables them to id...