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The potential role of computerized decision support systems to improve empirical antibiotic prescribing

Author(s) -

Peter Davey

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkl438

Subject(s) - antibiotics , clostridium difficile , intensive care medicine , medicine , antibiotic resistance , antimicrobial , antimicrobial chemotherapy , cornerstone , medline , microbiology and biotechnology , political science , biology , art , visual arts , law

Prudent antibiotic prescribing is a cornerstone of efforts to control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance and to reduce the occurrence of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea, and is also currently the subject of a joint Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the Hospital Infection Society. An article in this issue of the Journal describes a cluster randomized trial of an intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing using TREAT, a computerized decision support system. The results from this trial provide a significant contribution to the development of evidence-based prescribing of antibiotics.

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