Two Novel Antibiotic Use Metrics for Facilities and Individual Prescribers in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings

• Main Authors: Sunah Song (Author), Brigid Wilson (Author), Taissa Bej (Author), Corinne Kowal (Author), Federico Perez (Author), David Nace (Author), Robin Jump (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Measuring and reporting antibiotic use are essential to antimicrobial stewardship activities. The most common metric to assess facility-level use is days of antibiotic therapy per 1000 days of care (DOT/1000 DOC). This metric may be difficult to calculate, not be readily comparable, or n...