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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 42, Issue -, Pages S90-S95Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/499407
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Managing serious infections is a balance between providing timely and appropriate broad-spectrum empirical therapy for individual patients, which has been consistently shown to improve outcomes, and reducing unnecessary use of antimicrobial agents, which may contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance. To control the spread of antimicrobial resistance, hospitals commonly implement programs designed to optimize antimicrobial use, supported by infection-control measures. Hospital-based antimicrobial management programs - also called antimicrobial stewardship programs - are primarily based on education coupled with a front-end approach (i.e., restricting the availability of selected antimicrobial agents) or a back-end approach (i.e., reviewing broad-spectrum empirical therapy and then streamlining or discontinuing therapy, as indicated, on the basis of culture and susceptibility testing results and clinical response). Institutional efforts to optimize antimicrobial use should concentrate on patient outcomes, should have multidisciplinary support, and should use a combination of interventions customized to the needs, resources, and information technology infrastructure of the health care institution.
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