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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Apr 2015
Antibiotic prescribing at the transition from hospitalization to discharge: a target for antibiotic stewardship.
- Norihiro Yogo, Michelle K Haas, Bryan C Knepper, William J Burman, Philip S Mehler, and Timothy C Jenkins.
- 1Department of Medicine,Division of Infectious Diseases,University of Colorado,Aurora,Colorado.
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Apr 1; 36 (4): 474-8.
AbstractOf 300 patients prescribed oral antibiotics at the time of hospital discharge, urinary tract infection, community-acquired pneumonia, and skin infections accounted for 181 of the treatment indications (60%). Half of the prescriptions were antibiotics with broad Gram-negative activity. Discharge prescriptions were inappropriate in 79 of 150 cases reviewed (53%).
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