Preventing the inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria at a community teaching hospital

• Main Authors: Farhana Chowdhury (Author), Kumkum Sarkar (Author), Angela Branche (Author), Juliette Kim (Author), Philip Dwek (Author), Angelica Nangit (Author), David Tompkins (Author), Ernest Visconti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2012-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The goal of this study was to assess the overtreatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in hospitalized patients, calculate the total costs of inappropriate treatment, and determine if a multi-faceted educational intervention was effective in reducing the overtreatment of ASB in a resource-limited...