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Evaluation of an electronic antimicrobial time-out on antimicrobial utilization at a large health system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2019
Abstract
We evaluated the impact of an electronic health record based 72-hour antimicrobial time-out (ATO) on antimicrobial utilization. We observed that 6 hours after the ATO, 21% of empiric antimicrobials were discontinued or de-escalated. There was a significant reduction in the duration of antimicrobial therapy but no impact on overall antimicrobial usage metrics.
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- © 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved
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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: These data were presented in part at IDWeek on October 4, 2018, in San Francisco, California.
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