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1830. Avoiding Routine Urinalysis (UA) and Improving Urine Culture (UC) Utilization: An Antibiotic Stewardship Imperative in Geriatric Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine (EM)

BACKGROUND: A prior investigation alerted us to a common practice of obtaining UAs and UCs for admission to our geriatric psychiatry unit (GPU). These findings compelled us to assess antibiotic use (AU) on our 22-bed unit at Cambridge Health Alliance, Everett, a community-based teaching hospital, fr...

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Autores principales: Bruno-Murtha, Lou Ann, Emtman, Reiko, Barner, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252467/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.1486