Remote Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

Remote Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship has become standard practice at university medical centers, but the practice is more difficult to implement in remote community hospitals that lack infectious diseases trained practitioners. Starting in 2011, six community hospitals within the Vidant Health system began an antimicrobial stewardship program utilizing pharmacists who reviewed charts remotely from Vidant ...

Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship in Two Community Nepali Hospitals

Methods. We performed a retrospective review of inpatient and discharge antimicrobial prescribing at three hospitals from April to September 2016 using two data sources: electronic medication administrations and electronic prescription orders at discharge. Antimicrobial agents from the National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use (NHSN AU) module were included. Durations were calculated...

Antibiotic Utilization and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

219Characteristics of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS) Activities in Community Hospitals Upon Enrollment in the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network (DASON)

219. Characteristics of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS) Activities in Community Hospitals Upon Enrollment in the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network (DASON) Myra R. Hawkins, PharmD, BCPS (AQ-ID); Richard H. Drew, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FCCP; Sarah S. Lewis, MD; Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA; Daniel J. Sexton, MD, FIDSA; Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH; Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship O...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs in freestanding children's hospitals.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Single-center evaluations of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) suggest that ASPs are effective in reducing and improving antibiotic prescribing, but studies are limited. Our objective was to compare antibiotic prescribing rates in a group of pediatric hospitals with formalized ASPs (ASP+) to a group of concurrent control hospitals without formalized st...