Reductions in inpatient fluoroquinolone use and postdischarge Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) from a systemwide antimicrobial stewardship intervention

• Main Authors: K. Ashley Jones (Author), Udodirim N. Onwubiko (Author), Julianne Kubes (Author), Benjamin Albrecht (Author), Kristen Paciullo (Author), Jessica Howard-Anderson (Author), Sujit Suchindran (Author), Ronald Trible (Author), Jesse T. Jacob (Author), Sarah H. Yi (Author), Dana Goodenough (Author), Scott K. Fridkin (Author), Mary Elizabeth Sexton (Author), Zanthia Wiley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: To determine the impact of an inpatient stewardship intervention targeting fluoroquinolone use on inpatient and postdischarge Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Design: We used an interrupted time series study design to evaluate the rate of hospital-onset CDI (HO-CDI), pos...