Role of the infectious disease consultant in improving antimicrobial therapy prescription in neurosurgery
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Methods The IDCP was based on regular consultations by the ID specialist for practice recommendations of prophylaxis or targeted therapy prescriptions, driven by local antimicrobial resistance surveillance and clinical pharmacology parameters, together with antibiotic formulary restrictions; the activity also included weekly reassessment and feedback meetings with NS staff, and subsidiary telephone calls; all the activities were recorded in electronic databases. The ICPC started in 2008; data related to the ID consultations, microbiological sampling and antibiotic prescriptions including costs were analyzed for one year before (2007) and two years after the ICPC implementation (2008 and 2009).
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