The impact of earlier intervention by an antimicrobial stewardship team for specific antimicrobials in a single weekly intervention
Author(s) -
Daiki HAGIWARA,
Keisuke Sato,
Motoyasu Miyazaki,
Mitsuhiro Kamada,
Norihiro Moriwaki,
Takafumi Nakano,
Shouichi Shiotsuka,
Chiemi Tokushige,
Hiromi Toh,
Hidetoshi Kamimura,
Atsushi Togawa,
Tohru Takata
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.09.025
Subject(s) - antimicrobial stewardship , medicine , antimicrobial , piperacillin , intervention (counseling) , pseudomonas aeruginosa , piperacillin/tazobactam , tazobactam , retrospective cohort study , carbapenem , antibiotic resistance , emergency medicine , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , nursing , bacteria , genetics
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of earlier intervention by an antimicrobial stewardship team (AST) on antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance rates, and the clinical outcomes, without changing the weekly intervention schedule.
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