2893. The Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium: Improving Patient Care by Reducing Excessive Antibiotic Use in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Most patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can be safely treated with 5 days of antibiotics, but many are not. We determined whether a hospitalist-collaborative can reduce excess antibiotic duration in patients with CAP through partnership with antibiotic stewards...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Gandhi, Tejal N, Vaughn, Valerie M, Petty, Lindsay A, Conlon, Anna, Malani, Anurag N, Mclaughlin, Elizabeth, Weinmann, Allison J, Osterholzer, Danielle, Chopra, Vineet, Flanders, Scott A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809093/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz359.171
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