1046. Evaluating the outcomes of embedding Antimicrobial Stewardship order sets in the General Medicine Admission Electronic Order Set: A Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND: The use of facility-specific guidelines and clinical decision-making tools are recommended by a number of organizations to improve the appropriateness of empiric antimicrobial prescribing; however, how to increase usage is not clear. We evaluated the impact of embedding antimicrobial stewardship (AS) electronic order sets (EOS) into the general medicine admission EOS in the context of an established AS program. METHODS: The standalone EOS for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), urinary tract infection (UTI) and cellulitis were reviewed and simplified to only include the antibiotic section prior to embedding. The intervention was introduced on March 30, 2017 with pre-intervention period defined as January 1, 2016 to March 29, 2017 and post-intervention period as of March 30, 2017 to June 30, 2018. The primary outcome was the change in usage of embedded AS EOS compared with the corresponding standalone EOS using counts. In addition, other standalone AS EOS (i.e., Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), etc) were used as a control. The secondary outcomes were the change in antibiotic usage de-emphasized in embedded EOS (i.e., ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, moxifloxacin) and predicted prescribing shifts to antibiotics in the embedded EOS (i.e., amoxicillin-clavulanate, azithromycin and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim) using Days of Therapy (DOT)/1000 patient-days (PD). Paired t-test was used to compare antibiotic usage pre- and post-intervention. RESULTS: The usage of standalone EOS remained similar pre- and post-intervention except for a 16-fold increased usage of CDI EOS. There were large increases in uptake of the embedded EOS compared with the standalone EOS: 11-fold () increase for CAP, 47-fold () increase for UTI and 24-fold () increase for cellulitis. In addition, there was a statistically significant decrease in ciprofloxacin (mean 16.6 DOT/1000-PD vs. 13.6 DOT/1000-PD, P = 0.026) and moxifloxacin usage (mean 9.3 DOT/1000-PD vs. 5.2 DOT/1000-PD) during the study time period. CONCLUSION: Our study showed that simplifying AS EOS and embedding these into a more commonly used EOS is associated with a significant increase in EOS usage and uptake of AS recommended empiric antibiotics with a decrease in fluoroquinolone usage. [Image: see text] [Image: see text] DISCLOSURES: All authors: No reported disclosures.