Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center

We conducted a restrospective cohort study of patients discharged from the emergency department at a tertiary care center with an antimicrobial prescription. More than half of the prescribed antimicrobials were misused and frequently inappropriate for various infectious diseases. In this study, we a...

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Autores principales: Tagashira, Yasuaki, Yamane, Naofumi, Miyahara, Satoshi, Orihara, Azusa, Uehara, Yuki, Hiramatsu, Keiichi, Honda, Hitoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30793008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz016
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author Tagashira, Yasuaki
Yamane, Naofumi
Miyahara, Satoshi
Orihara, Azusa
Uehara, Yuki
Hiramatsu, Keiichi
Honda, Hitoshi
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Yamane, Naofumi
Miyahara, Satoshi
Orihara, Azusa
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description We conducted a restrospective cohort study of patients discharged from the emergency department at a tertiary care center with an antimicrobial prescription. More than half of the prescribed antimicrobials were misused and frequently inappropriate for various infectious diseases. In this study, we analyzed the physician-related and environment-related factors predicting misuse.
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spelling pubmed-63688442019-02-21 Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center Tagashira, Yasuaki Yamane, Naofumi Miyahara, Satoshi Orihara, Azusa Uehara, Yuki Hiramatsu, Keiichi Honda, Hitoshi Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We conducted a restrospective cohort study of patients discharged from the emergency department at a tertiary care center with an antimicrobial prescription. More than half of the prescribed antimicrobials were misused and frequently inappropriate for various infectious diseases. In this study, we analyzed the physician-related and environment-related factors predicting misuse. Oxford University Press 2019-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6368844/ /pubmed/30793008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz016 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Brief Report
Tagashira, Yasuaki
Yamane, Naofumi
Miyahara, Satoshi
Orihara, Azusa
Uehara, Yuki
Hiramatsu, Keiichi
Honda, Hitoshi
Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title_full Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title_fullStr Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title_full_unstemmed Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title_short Misuse of Discharge Antimicrobial Prescription in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Center
title_sort misuse of discharge antimicrobial prescription in the emergency department: an observational study at a tertiary care center
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30793008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz016
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