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Multifaceted intervention for improving antimicrobial prescription at discharge in the emergency department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Yasuaki Tagashira Open the ORCID record for Yasuaki Tagashira [Opens in a new window] ,
Manaka Goto ,
Reiko Kondo  and
Hitoshi Honda Open the ORCID record for Hitoshi Honda [Opens in a new window]
Yasuaki Tagashira*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan Department of Microbiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Manaka Goto
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
Reiko Kondo
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
Hitoshi Honda
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
*
Author for correspondence: Yasuaki Tagashira E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The frequent prescription of antimicrobials, such as at discharge from the emergency department, calls for optimizing this practice through modifying physicians’ prescribing behavior. A 1-year, multifaceted intervention implemented in an emergency department decreased the mean monthly antimicrobial prescription rate at discharge and increased the proportion of appropriate prescriptions.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 88 - 91
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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