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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

An evaluation of the impact of antibiotic stewardship in reducing the use of high-risk antibiotics

An evaluation of the impact of antibiotic stewardship in reducing the use of  high-risk antibiotics and its effect on the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection in hospital settings. J.Antimicrob. Chemother., Aug 2012 [epub]

Aldeyab, M.A., et al.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22899806?dopt=Abstract

To evaluate the impact of a high-risk antibiotic stewardship programme on reducing antibiotic use and on hospital Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) incidence rates. A secondary objective was to present the possible utility of time-series analysis as an antibiotic risk classification tool.

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