Assessing an intervention to improve the safety of automatic stop orders for inpatient antimicrobials
Automatic stop orders (ASOs) for antimicrobials have been recommended as a component of antimicrobial stewardship programs, but may result in unintentional treatment interruption due to failure of providers to re-order an antimicrobial medication. We examined the impact of a multifaceted interventio...
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Published in | Infection prevention in practice Vol. 2; no. 2; p. 100062 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier Ltd
01.06.2020
Elsevier |
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Summary: | Automatic stop orders (ASOs) for antimicrobials have been recommended as a component of antimicrobial stewardship programs, but may result in unintentional treatment interruption due to failure of providers to re-order an antimicrobial medication. We examined the impact of a multifaceted intervention designed to reduce the potential harms of interrupting antimicrobial treatment due to ASOs.
An intervention was implemented that included pharmacist review of expiring antimicrobials as well as provider education to encourage use of a long-term antimicrobial order set for commonly used prophylactic antimicrobials. Pharmacist interventions and antimicrobial re-ordering was recorded. Percent of missed doses of a commonly used prophylactic antimicrobial, single strength co-trimoxazole, was compared pre- and post-intervention using a chi-squared test.
From November 1, 2015 to November 30, 2016, there were 401 individual pharmacist interventions for antimicrobial ASOs, resulting in 295 instances of antimicrobial re-ordering. The total percent of presumed missed single strength co-trimoxazole doses was reduced from 8.4% to 6.2% post-intervention (P<0.001).
This study found that a targeted intervention was associated with a reduction in unintended antimicrobial treatment interruption related to ASOs. |
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ISSN: | 2590-0889 2590-0889 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100062 |