Antibiotic Stewardship Ward Rounds and a Dedicated Prescription Chart Reduce Antibiotic Consumption and Pharmacy Costs without Affecting Inpatient Mortality or Re-Admission Rates

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic consumption is a major driver of bacterial resistance. To address the increasing burden of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, antibiotic stewardship programmes are promoted worldwide to rationalize antibiotic prescribing and conserve remaining antibiotics. Few studies...

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Autores principales: Boyles, Tom H., Whitelaw, Andrew, Bamford, Colleen, Moodley, Mischka, Bonorchis, Kim, Morris, Vida, Rawoot, Naazneen, Naicker, Vanishree, Lusakiewicz, Irena, Black, John, Stead, David, Lesosky, Maia, Raubenheimer, Peter, Dlamini, Sipho, Mendelson, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079747

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