Antimicrobial Use in US Hospitals: Comparison of Results From Emerging Infections Program Prevalence Surveys, 2015 and 2011

  13 June 2020

In the 2011 US hospital prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use 50% of patients received antimicrobial medications on the survey date or day before. More hospitals have since established antimicrobial stewardship programs. We repeated the survey in 2015 to determine antimicrobial use prevalence and describe changes since 2011.

Overall hospital antimicrobial use prevalence was not different in 2011 and 2015; however, differences observed in selected patient or antimicrobial groups may provide evidence of stewardship impact.

Author(s): Shelley S Magill, Erin O’Leary, Susan M Ray, Marion A Kainer, Christopher Evans, Wendy M Bamberg, Helen Johnston, Sarah J Janelle, Tolulope Oyewumi, Ruth Lynfield, Jean Rainbow, Linn Warnke, Joelle Nadle, Deborah L Thompson, Shamima Sharmin, Rebecca Pierce, Alexia Y Zhang, Valerie Ocampo, Meghan Maloney, Samantha Greissman, Lucy E Wilson, Ghinwa Dumyati, Jonathan R Edwards,
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