Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation

A recent analysis demonstrated that infectious diseases (ID) specialty intervention was associated with decreased mortality and hospital readmission. These benefits were greatest if involvement occurred within two days of hospital admission. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should augment the serv...

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Autores principales: Morrill, Haley J, Gaitanis, Melissa M, LaPlante, Kerry L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-3-12
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description A recent analysis demonstrated that infectious diseases (ID) specialty intervention was associated with decreased mortality and hospital readmission. These benefits were greatest if involvement occurred within two days of hospital admission. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should augment the services of an ID specialist team and promote formal consultation. Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center was associated with an increased number of consults (increase of 72.2%) and decreased time to consult (3.5 days sooner), which might also dramatically improve patient outcomes, including mortality and readmission rates.
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spelling pubmed-40185012014-05-14 Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation Morrill, Haley J Gaitanis, Melissa M LaPlante, Kerry L Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Letter to the Editor A recent analysis demonstrated that infectious diseases (ID) specialty intervention was associated with decreased mortality and hospital readmission. These benefits were greatest if involvement occurred within two days of hospital admission. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should augment the services of an ID specialist team and promote formal consultation. Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center was associated with an increased number of consults (increase of 72.2%) and decreased time to consult (3.5 days sooner), which might also dramatically improve patient outcomes, including mortality and readmission rates. BioMed Central 2014-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4018501/ /pubmed/24742249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-3-12 Text en Copyright © 2014 Morrill et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation
title_fullStr Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation
title_full_unstemmed Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation
title_short Antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation
title_sort antimicrobial stewardship program prompts increased and earlier infectious diseases consultation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018501/
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