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101. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2022 - Notably, 36% of patients who presented to primary care had signs of infection, however 61% received antibiotics … , raising concerns of antibiotic overuse. … incidence-origins-and-avoidable-harm-missed-opportunities-diagnosis-longitudinal-patient https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/toolkit-improve-antibiotic-use-ambulatory-care

102. How one medical checkup can snowball into a ‘cascade’ of tests, causing more harm than good. | PSNet
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     February 03, 2021 - April 22, 2020 COVID-19: an emerging threat to antibiotic stewardship in the emergency … View More Related Resources Clinician distress and inappropriate antibiotic … May 5, 2021 Two pandemics, same story: the potentially dangerous overuse of antibiotics … January 29, 2020 Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately … September 12, 2018 Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

103. Inappropriate hospital admission as a risk factor for the subsequent development of adverse events: a cross-sectional study. | PSNet
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     March 09, 2022 - Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic … May 18, 2022 Implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program in long-term care facilities … March 9, 2022 Could Efforts to Fight the Coronavirus Lead to Overuse of Antibiotics? … May 11, 2019 Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately insured … June 25, 2018 Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care: A Practical Playbook.

104. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 27, 2022 - This article discusses a keystroke error that delayed the scheduling of an antibiotic for one year. … digital-doctor-hope-hype-and-harm-dawn-medicines-computer-age https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delay-initiating-antibiotics-results-fatal-error

105. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 03, 2021 - investigation-death-baby-j-university-hospitals-bristol-and-weston-nhs- foundation-trust This report examines a premature infant death associated with failings of antibiotic … fatal-error-neonate-does-just-culture-provide-answer https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delay-initiating-antibiotics-results-fatal-error

106. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2016 - psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/care-transitions https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/time-day-and-decision-prescribe-antibiotics … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/time-day-and-decision-prescribe-antibiotics https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue

107. Lessons learned from a national hospital antibiotic stewardship implementation project. | PSNet
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     July 20, 2022 - Study Lessons learned from a national hospital antibiotic stewardship implementation … Lessons learned from a national hospital antibiotic stewardship implementation project. … to reduce healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic-associated adverse events. … Lessons learned from a national hospital antibiotic stewardship implementation project. … July 20, 2022 Association of a Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use with antibiotic

108. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 19, 2018 - antimicrobial-stewardship Antimicrobial stewardship programs are a key strategy to reduce overprescribing of antibiotics … variety of clinicians in supporting antimicrobial stewardship program implementation and optimizing antibiotic … expanding-role-antimicrobial-stewardship-programs-hospitals-united-states-lessons-learned https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/antibiotic-stewardship-acute-care-practical-playbook

109. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2016 - antimicrobial-stewardship-and-patient-safety Antimicrobial stewardship has been highlighted as a strategy to improve antibiotic … teams, their impact in the surgical setting, and the role of nurses in ensuring appropriate use of antibiotics … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/antimicrobial-stewardship-toolkit https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/vital-signs-improving-antibiotic-use-among-hospitalized-patients

110. Shaping systems for better behavioral choices: lessons learned from a fatal medication error. | PSNet
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     February 12, 2020 - nurses were trained and workarounds were routine), and human factors engineering (bags containing antibiotics … June 16, 2019 Mix-ups between epidural analgesia and IV antibiotics in labor and delivery

111. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 29, 2017 - provides resources for hospital administrators, clinicians, and patients to help prevent overuse of antibiotics … antimicrobial-stewardship-another-focus-patient-safety https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/vital-signs-improving-antibiotic-use-among-hospitalized-patients

112. Standard Deviations | PSNet
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     January 01, 2006 - After having his abscess successfully drained, the patient required a 6-week course of IV antibiotics … the best of the situation, the physicians caring for the patient elected to discharge him on an oral antibiotic … the hospital that would have been more acceptable to him and would have allowed continuation of IV antibiotic … If physicians had failed to urge the patient to receive 6 weeks of IV antibiotics and explain the risks … case report tells us that "the physicians caring for the patient elected to discharge him on an oral antibiotic

113. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | PSNet
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     October 23, 2019 - Tools/Toolkit Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals … Citation Text: Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals Agency for Healthcare Research … This tool kit shares training modules and tools to support a 4-point practice to improve antibiotic prescribing … URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic … February 5, 2020 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use.

114. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2008 - Most importantly, CA-MRSA is usually susceptible to many antibiotics.(12,13) Outbreaks of CA-MRSA have … Antibiotic resistance has several implications with respect to clinical outcome. … prevention of pneumonia in ventilated patients, accurate diagnosis of infections, and judicious use of antibiotics … have documented care provided to them.(21) Another concern is that patients will receive unnecessary antibiotics … because they are colonized with MRSA, resulting in more antibiotic resistance.

115. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 29, 2017 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-errors-lead-inappropriate-antimicrobial-use Overuse of antibiotics … This retrospective study found that unnecessary antibiotic use was often a result of diagnostic error … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/vital-signs-improving-antibiotic-use-among-hospitalized-patients

116. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2009 - After having his abscess successfully drained, the patient required a 6-week course of IV antibiotics … the best of the situation, the physicians caring for the patient elected to discharge him on an oral antibiotic … the hospital that would have been more acceptable to him and would have allowed continuation of IV antibiotic … case report tells us that "the physicians caring for the patient elected to discharge him on an oral antibiotic … Although he was ambulating at that point, he still required additional IV antibiotics and lacked any

117. Delayed Recognition of a Positive Blood Culture | PSNet
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     January 29, 2020 - gram-positive rods, but the speciation (type of bacteria) and sensitivity profile (which suggests which antibiotics … The medical team ordered appropriate antibiotic treatment for C. difficile but did not initiate treatment … symptoms, the patient was discharged 2 days after admission with instructions to complete the course of antibiotics … Intravenous antibiotics were initiated for treatment of listeriosis. … gram-positive rod is a contaminant, if the culture had not speciated on the day of discharge, withholding antibiotics

118. Getting a Good Report Card: Unintended Consequences of the Public Reporting of Hospital Quality | PSNet
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     October 01, 2004 - In another example, the current standard that antibiotics should be given to patients with pneumonia … within 4 hours of arrival in the ED may result in antibiotics being given to some patients who prove … within 4 hours without exposing many other patients to antibiotics unnecessarily. … received in hospital Smoking cessation advice/counseling Appropriate Initial Antibiotic Selection … Surgical Infection Prevention Prophylactic Antibiotic Received Within 1 Hour Prior to Surgical

119. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - The patient was suffering from multiple concurrent infections requiring intravenous antibiotics. … The patient in the room next to him was also receiving antibiotics. … Inadvertently, the antibiotics were switched at the nursing station, resulting in the administration … of Nafcillin (a penicillin-like antibiotic) to the AIDS patient, who in the past had a known anaphylactic-shock … nurse taking care of both patients realized the error after she went to give the other patient his antibiotics

120. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2006 - within 4 hours without exposing many other patients to antibiotics unnecessarily. … Discharge Instructions Smoking cessation advice/counseling Pneumonia Oxygenation Assessment Initial Antibiotic … Timing Pneumococcal Vaccination Influenza vaccination Blood culture performed prior to first antibiotic … received in hospital Smoking cessation advice/counseling Appropriate Initial Antibiotic Selection … Surgical Infection Prevention Prophylactic Antibiotic Received Within 1 Hour Prior to Surgical Incision