Impact of Antibiotic Stewardship Rounds in the Intensive Care Setting: a prospective cluster-randomized crossover study
08 September 2021
Few groups have formally studied the effect of dedicated antibiotic stewardship rounds (ASRs) on antibiotic use (AU) in intensive care units (ICUs).
Weekly multi-disciplinary ASRs was a high-resource intervention associated with a small AU reduction. The noticeable ICU AU decline over time is possibly due to indirect effects of ASRs. Effects differed among specialty ICUs, emphasizing the importance of customizing ASRs to match unit-specific population, workflow, and culture.
Further reading: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Author(s): Jessica L Seidelman, MD, MPH, Nicholas A Turner, MD, MHSc, Rebekah H Wrenn, PharmD, BCPS, Christina Sarubbi, PharmD, BCPS, Deverick J Anderson, MD, MPH, Daniel J Sexton, MD, Rebekah W Moehring, MD, MPH
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