A multimodal antimicrobial stewardship intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing in patients with COVID-19

Shaylee Anderson; Nicholas Bennett; Laura Aragon; Kevin Kennedy; Sarah Boyd

doi:10.1017/ash.2023.462

A multimodal antimicrobial stewardship intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing in patients with COVID-19

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Oct 19;3(1):e172. doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.462. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Shaylee Anderson¹, Nicholas Bennett², Laura Aragon², Kevin Kennedy³, Sarah Boyd²

Affiliations

¹ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
² Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Abstract

This study assessed outcomes prior to and after electronic medical record-based clinical decision support implementation combined with prospective audit in patients with COVID-19. This multimodal stewardship intervention was associated with a decrease in antibiotic exposure for patients with COVID-19 (44.4% vs 61.8%, p = 0.002) within the first 7 days of hospitalization.