Does local matter? Evaluating susceptibility variations between hospital-wide and hematology-oncology unit antibiograms

• Main Authors: Rachel Bartash (Author), Erika Orner (Author), Kelsie Cowman (Author), Wendy Szymczak (Author), Priya Nori (Author), Noah Kornblum (Author), Margaret McCort (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antibiograms are important for guiding empiric antibiotics for febrile neutropenia. However, hospital-wide antibiograms may not capture complexities of patients with hematologic malignancies. We created a hematology-oncology unit-specific antibiogram and found higher resistance among Escherichia col...