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Antimicrobial Stewardship with Pharmacist Intervention Improves Timeliness of Antimicrobials Across Thirty-three Hospitals in South Africa

INTRODUCTION: Ensuring timely administration of antimicrobials is critical in the management of patients with infections. Mortality increases by 7.6% for every hour of delay in the administration of antimicrobial therapy in patients with sepsis. The time elapsed from the written antibiotic order to...

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Autores principales: Messina, Angeliki P., van den Bergh, Dena, Goff, Debra A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26362291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40121-015-0082-x