Appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing in a Swiss tertiary care hospital: a repeated point prevalence survey.

CONCLUSION: Almost one third of prescriptions were inappropriate in our tertiary care centre despite local guidelines and an on-demand infectious diseases consultation service. Our results underscore the need for expanding current antimicrobial stewardship efforts, including national initiatives such as stewardship and prescribing guidelines, repeated surveys and identification of areas for improvement including timely intravenous to oral switches in order to reduce the consequences of inappropriate prescribing and of multidrug resistant organisms. PMID: 31656037 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31656037?dopt=Abstract

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - October 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gürtler N, Erba A, Giehl C, Tschudin-Sutter S, Bassetti S, Osthoff M Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research