ArticleFederal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS2021
Audit and Feedback: A Quality Improvement Study to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship.
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- Antibiotic use among patients admitted to tertiary hospitals in Uganda: a trend analysis of 2020-2023 point prevalence surveys.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Successful adaptation of an initiative to reduce unnecessary antibiotics for acute respiratory infections across two Veteran Affairs ambulatory healthcare systems.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeMany antibiotics prescribed in an outpatient setting may be inappropriate, and by some estimates, half of the antibiotic prescriptions for acute bronchitis may be inappropriate. This quality improvement study aimed to decrease the rate of potentially inappropriate (not guideline concordant) antibiotic prescribing in acute bronchitis.
methodsThis program used an audit and feedback approach. Clinicians received education coupled with audit and feedback, which are components of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention framework for an effective antimicrobial stewardship program. Antibiotic prescribing rates in patients with acute bronchitis without underlying chronic lung disease or evidence of bacterial infection were compared over two 9-month periods. The baseline period was October 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 and the posteducation period was October 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.
resultsPotentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing dropped from 75% (160/213) at baseline to 60% (107/177) posteducation (95% CI 0.05, 0.24;
conclusionsStudy findings show a decline in potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing and a resulting improvement in clinic antimicrobial stewardship efforts.
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