Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention and Feedback to Infectious Disease Specialists: A Case Study in High-Dose Daptomycin

• Main Authors: Jennifer L. Ross (Author), Shannon Rankin (Author), Patricia Marshik (Author), Renée-Claude Mercier (Author), Meghan Brett (Author), Carla J. Walraven (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Infectious Diseases specialists have used high-dose daptomycin (≥6 mg/kg/day) in select patients with difficult to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections to optimize outcomes. Antimicrobial stewardship programs enforce antimicro...