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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Aug 2016
Safety of Automatic End Dates for Antimicrobial Orders to Facilitate Stewardship.
- Rachael K Ross, Jonathan M Beus, Talene A Metjian, A Russell Localio, Eric D Shelov, Bimal R Desai, Sean P O'Neill, Theoklis E Zaoutis, and Jeffrey S Gerber.
- Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 Aug 1; 37 (8): 974-978.
AbstractFollowing implementation of automatic end dates for antimicrobial orders to facilitate antimicrobial stewardship at a large, academic children's hospital, no differences were observed in patient mortality, length of stay, or readmission rates, even among patients with documented bacteremia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:974-978.
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