Antibiotic stewardship ward rounds and a dedicated prescription chart reduce antibiotic consumption and pharmacy costs without affecting inpatient mortality or re-admission rates.

Antibiotic stewardship ward rounds and a dedicated prescription chart reduce antibiotic consumption and pharmacy costs without affecting inpatient mortality or re-admission rates.

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic consumption is a major driver of bacterial resistance. To address the increasing burden of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, antibiotic stewardship programmes are promoted worldwide to rationalize antibiotic prescribing and conserve remaining antibiotics. Few studies...

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Main Authors: Tom H Boyles, Andrew Whitelaw, Colleen Bamford, Mischka Moodley, Kim Bonorchis, Vida Morris, Naazneen Rawoot, Vanishree Naicker, Irena Lusakiewicz, John Black, David Stead, Maia Lesosky, Peter Raubenheimer, Sipho Dlamini, Marc Mendelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3857167?pdf=render

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