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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...
Autores principales: | Bruno-Murtha, Lou Ann, Emtman, Reiko, Barner, Amanda |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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