Open AccessPopulation-Wide Peer Comparison Audit and Feedback to Reduce Antibiotic Initiation and Duration in Long-Term Care Facilities with Embedded Randomized Controlled Trial
Author(s) -
Nick Daneman,
Samantha Lee,
Heming Bai,
Chaim M. Bell,
Susan E. Bronskill,
Michael A. Campitelli,
Gail Dobell,
Longdi Fu,
Gary Garber,
Noah Ivers,
Jonathan M.C. Lam,
Bradley J Langford,
Celia Laur,
Andrew M. Morris,
Cara Mulhall,
Ruxandra Pinto,
Farah E Saxena,
Kevin L Schwartz,
Kevin A. Brown
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciab256
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , audit , confidence interval , antibiotics , quarter (canadian coin) , population , long term care , emergency medicine , pediatrics , nursing , environmental health , history , management , archaeology , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology
Antibiotic overprescribing in long-term care settings is driven by prescriber preferences and is associated with preventable harms for residents. We aimed to determine whether peer comparison audit and feedback reporting for physicians reduces antibiotic overprescribing among residents.