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Sustained Impact of an Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2016

David X. Li ,
Marcela A. Ferrada ,
Edina Avdic ,
Pranita D. Tamma  and
Sara E. Cosgrove
David X. Li
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Marcela A. Ferrada
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Edina Avdic
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Pranita D. Tamma
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Sara E. Cosgrove*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Sara Cosgrove, MD, MS, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St, Halsted 827, Baltimore, MD 21287 ([email protected])
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Abstract

Antibiotic stewardship interventions targeting community-acquired pneumonia have been successful in reducing antibiotic overuse in the short term, but the sustainability of their effects has not been investigated. We report that improvements in antibiotic use due to a syndrome-focused intervention for community-acquired pneumonia were sustained 3 years later without additional intervention.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;1–4

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 10 , October 2016 , pp. 1243 - 1246
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

D.X.L. and M.A.F. contributed equally to this article.

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