Direct Measurement of Performance: A New Era in Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Main Authors: Majdi N. Al-Hasan (Author), Hana Rac Winders (Author), P. Brandon Bookstaver (Author), Julie Ann Justo (Author)
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• 出版: MDPI AG, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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For decades, the performance of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) has been measured by incidence rates of hospital-onset <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> and other infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria. However, these represent indirect and nonspecific ASP metrics. They a...