Clinical Impact of an Antibiotic Stewarship Program at Two Non-Teaching Community Hospitals
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Impact of an electronic antibiotic advice and approval system on antibiotic prescribing in an Australian teaching hospital.
The impact of a computer-based infectious diseases electronic antibiotic advice and approval system ("IDEA(3)S") was assessed as an alternative to a labour-intensive, phone-based approval system. IDEA(3)S-based approvals replaced 48% of all approvals for the most frequently requested antimicrobial agents (ceftriaxone/cefotaxime, vancomycin) and were associated with stable overall rates of antim...
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