Open AccessThe Association of Antibiotic Stewardship With Fluoroquinolone Prescribing in Michigan Hospitals: A Multi-hospital Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Valerie M Vaughn,
Tejal Gandhi,
Anna Conlon,
Vineet Chopra,
Anurag Malani,
Scott A. Flanders
Publication year - 2019
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/ciy1102
Subject(s) - medicine , antimicrobial stewardship , levofloxacin , medical prescription , moxifloxacin , emergency medicine , prospective cohort study , pneumonia , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , antibiotic resistance , pharmacology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Fluoroquinolones increase the risk of Clostridioides difficile infection and antibiotic resistance. Hospitals often use pre-prescription approval or prospective audit and feedback to target fluoroquinolone prescribing. Whether these strategies impact aggregate fluoroquinolone use is unknown.