Decreased antimicrobial prescribing rate following academic detailing of resident physicians in outpatient clinic

Shannon L Andrews; Amy A Gravely; Amanda Beaudoin; Meghan K Rothenberger; Dimitri M Drekonja

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.259

Decreased antimicrobial prescribing rate following academic detailing of resident physicians in outpatient clinic

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 31;3(1):e61. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.259. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Shannon L Andrews¹, Amy A Gravely², Amanda Beaudoin³, Meghan K Rothenberger^{4

5}, Dimitri M Drekonja^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
³ One Health Antibiotic Stewardship, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota.
⁴ Infectious Disease Section, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁶ Chief, Infectious Disease Section, Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis.

Abstract

Among 37 internal-medicine resident physicians assigned to our outpatient clinic at Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Health Care System (MVAHCS) on July 1, 2017, we designed a pre- and postintervention observational study. Our results show that in-person academic detailing around outpatient antimicrobial selection was associated with a decrease in outpatient antimicrobial prescriptions in a group of high-prescribing resident physicians.