A novel risk-adjusted metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at hospital discharge

• Main Authors: Daniel Livorsi (Author), Jamie Merchant (Author), Hyunkeun Cho (Author), Matthew Goetz (Author), Bruce Alexander (Author), Brice Beck (Author), Michi Goto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Approximately 40% of all antibiotics related to an acute-care hospital stay are prescribed at the time of hospital discharge. However, there is no metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at this transition of care. In this study, we sought to build a risk-adjusted met...