Impact of a Prospective Audit and Feedback Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center: A Six-Point Assessment
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Impact of a Prospective Audit and Feedback Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center: A Six-Point Assessment
BACKGROUND Prospective audit and feedback is a core antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) strategy; however its impact is difficult to measure. METHODS Our quasi-experimental study measured the effect of an ASP on clinical outcomes, antimicrobial use, resistance, costs, patient safety (adverse drug events [ADE] and Clostridium difficile infection [CDI]), and process metrics pre- (9/10-10/11...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv133.969