Antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the Veterans’ Health Administration: How much and how appropriate?

We evaluated antibiotic-prescribing across 111 mental health units in the Veterans’ Health Administration. We found that accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infections is a major area for improvement. Because non–mental-health clinicians were involved in most antibiotic-prescribing decisions, stewar...

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Autores principales: Tieri, Jay J., Alexander, Bruce, Egge, Jason A., Heintz, Brett H., Livorsi, Daniel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9929705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34670636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.432
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description We evaluated antibiotic-prescribing across 111 mental health units in the Veterans’ Health Administration. We found that accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infections is a major area for improvement. Because non–mental-health clinicians were involved in most antibiotic-prescribing decisions, stewardship interventions for mental health patients should have a broad target audience to be effective.
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spelling pubmed-99297052023-02-16 Antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the Veterans’ Health Administration: How much and how appropriate? Tieri, Jay J. Alexander, Bruce Egge, Jason A. Heintz, Brett H. Livorsi, Daniel J. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication We evaluated antibiotic-prescribing across 111 mental health units in the Veterans’ Health Administration. We found that accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infections is a major area for improvement. Because non–mental-health clinicians were involved in most antibiotic-prescribing decisions, stewardship interventions for mental health patients should have a broad target audience to be effective. Cambridge University Press 2023-02 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9929705/ /pubmed/34670636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.432 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the Veterans’ Health Administration: How much and how appropriate?
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title_full_unstemmed Antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the Veterans’ Health Administration: How much and how appropriate?
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title_sort antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the veterans’ health administration: how much and how appropriate?
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