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. 2020 Jan 11;7(3):ofaa007.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa007. eCollection 2020 Mar.

A Deeper Dive Into Antibiotic Stewardship Needs: A Multihospital Survey

Valerie M Vaughn  1   2   3 , Lindsay A Petty  1 , Scott A Flanders  1   3 , Anurag N Malani  4   5 , Twisha Patel  1 , Steven J Bernstein  1   2 , Lama M Hsaiky  6 , Rama Thyagarajan  7 , Danielle Osterholzer  8   9 , Elizabeth McLaughlin  1 , Jennifer K Horowitz  1   3 , Tejal N Gandhi  1
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A Deeper Dive Into Antibiotic Stewardship Needs: A Multihospital Survey

Valerie M Vaughn et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .

Abstract

In a 2016 survey of 46 Michigan hospitals, we identified four key needs for antibiotic stewardship: clinically-relevant antibiotic data, monitoring compliance, syndrome-specific interventions, and discharge stewardship. A stewardship initiative now addresses these needs within the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium.

Keywords: antibiotic stewardship; infection prevention; survey.

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