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Development and Assessment of a Physician-Specific Antimicrobial Usage and Spectrum Feedback Tool
Author(s) -
Mark McIntyre,
Lopa Naik,
Chaim M. Bell,
Andrew M. Morris
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
open forum infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2328-8957
DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofx124
Subject(s) - antimicrobial stewardship , medicine , antimicrobial , summative assessment , intensive care medicine , audit , medical physics , formative assessment , antibiotics , antibiotic resistance , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , management , organic chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology
Individualized data are required but difficult to obtain for effective antimicrobial stewardship audit and feedback. We developed a summative tool to evaluate consumption (days of therapy per 100 patient-days) and spectrum of antimicrobials that was also acceptable to individual clinicians.

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