Impact of an Unsolicited, Simple Standardized Form Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention to Improve Guideline Adherence in the Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

Impact of an Antimicroibal Stewardship Bundle of Rapid Identification of Methicillin Susceptibility and Active Intervention on Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative Focused on Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

1579. Reduction of Antimicrobial Resistance among GramNegative Pathogens after Antimicrobial Stewardship in Three Tertiary Egyptian Hospitals Amani El Kholy, MD; Samia A. Girgis, MD.; Mervat A.F. Shetta, MD.; Arwa Ramadan, MD. and Dalia H. AbdElhHamid, MD.; Clinical Pathology, Cairo University Medical School, Cairo, Egypt, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Clinical Pathol...

Impact of an evidence-based bundle intervention in the quality-of-care management and outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Several aspects of clinical management have been shown to have significant impact on prognosis. The objective of the study was to identify evidence-based quality-of-care indicators (QCIs) for the management of SAB, and to evaluate the impact of a QCI-based bundle on the management and progn...

Impact of antimicrobial stewardship intervention on coagulase-negative Staphylococcus blood cultures in conjunction with rapid diagnostic testing.

Rapid diagnostic testing with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) decreases the time to organism identification by 24 to 36 h compared to the amount of time required by conventional methods. However, there are limited data evaluating the impact of MALDI-TOF with real-time antimicrobial stewardship team (AST) review and intervention on antimicrobial prescribing...

Reply to Fries et al . and Valentin

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Fries et al [1] and Valentin et al [2] for their comments about our study [3] and for providing their data. Although their results did not control for confounders, their experience adds to previous work showing that consultation with an infectious diseases specialist improves the management and prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), as reviewed in our articl...