Improving understanding and utilization of the antibiogram among medical residents

Stephen J Cooper; Christopher J Destache; Renuga Vivekanandan

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.275

Improving understanding and utilization of the antibiogram among medical residents

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Aug 18;2(1):e142. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.275. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Stephen J Cooper¹, Christopher J Destache^{2

3}, Renuga Vivekanandan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Creighton University School of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska.
² Creighton University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Omaha, Nebraska.
³ Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Omaha, Nebraska.

Abstract

In this quality improvement project, we sought to increase the understanding and utilization of the antibiogram among physicians in family medicine, internal medicine, and surgery residency programs at a Midwest Academic Healthcare institution. Through simple, inexpensive measures the comfort with, access to, and utilization of the antibiogram can be improved.