Initial blood culture collection practices and the associated factors upon continued empiric piperacillin-tazobactam usage

• Main Authors: Satoshi Kitaura (Author), Koh Okamoto (Author), Ryo Yamaguchi (Author), Takehito Yamamoto (Author), Toshiyuki Kishida (Author), Daisuke Inoue (Author), Hirotaka Miyashita (Author), Masayuki Ueda (Author), Hideki Hashimoto (Author), Sohei Harada (Author), Shu Okugawa (Author), Takeya Tsutsumi (Author), Kyoji Moriya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Approaches to the prescription behavior of broad-spectrum antibiotics, including preauthorization and prospective audit and feedback (PAF), are a focus of antimicrobial stewardship (ASP). However, preprescription behavior, such as blood-culture collection before empiric prescription, is...