Antibiotic de-escalation on internal medicine services with rounding pharmacists compared to services without

International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy

Fecha de publicación: 17 April 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-020-01029-w

Autores: Bethany A. Ford, Jay L. Martello, Jon P. Wietholter & Kara L. Piechowski

Background: Antimicrobial stewardship programs ensure antibiotic therapy is used appropriately and includes de-escalation when clinical status or culture data indicates broad-spectrum agents are no longer needed. Although the impact of infectious diseases clinical pharmacists has been well documented, there is limited research evaluating the impact of adult internal medicine clinical pharmacists on broad-spectrum antibiotic de-escalation while rounding on internal medicine teams.