Improving antibiotic utilization through an outpatient stewardship initiative

Antibiotic prescribing errors at hospital discharge are common. We designed a pharmacist-driven antimicrobial stewardship program to evaluate prescriptions prior to being transmitted to community pharmacies. Drug-related problems were identified in prescriptions for 48 of 149 patients, resulting in...

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Autores principales: Hiryak, Kayla M., Kludjian, Geena A., Gallagher, Jason C., Cavaretta, Marissa J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10369438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37502250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.367
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author Hiryak, Kayla M.
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description Antibiotic prescribing errors at hospital discharge are common. We designed a pharmacist-driven antimicrobial stewardship program to evaluate prescriptions prior to being transmitted to community pharmacies. Drug-related problems were identified in prescriptions for 48 of 149 patients, resulting in 55 interventions. Review at discharge improves outpatient prescribing of antimicrobials.
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spelling pubmed-103694382023-07-27 Improving antibiotic utilization through an outpatient stewardship initiative Hiryak, Kayla M. Kludjian, Geena A. Gallagher, Jason C. Cavaretta, Marissa J. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication Antibiotic prescribing errors at hospital discharge are common. We designed a pharmacist-driven antimicrobial stewardship program to evaluate prescriptions prior to being transmitted to community pharmacies. Drug-related problems were identified in prescriptions for 48 of 149 patients, resulting in 55 interventions. Review at discharge improves outpatient prescribing of antimicrobials. Cambridge University Press 2023-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10369438/ /pubmed/37502250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.367 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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