TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of an antibiotic spectrum index in the neonatal intensive care unit
AU - Lahart, Alexandra C.
AU - McPherson, Christopher C.
AU - Gerber, Jeffrey S.
AU - Warner, Barbara B.
AU - Lee, Brian R.
AU - Newland, Jason G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Antimicrobial stewardship programs typically use days of therapy to assess antimicrobial use. However, this metric does not account for the antimicrobial spectrum of activity. We applied an antibiotic spectrum index to a population of very-low-birth-weight infants to assess its utility to evaluate the impact of antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
AB - Antimicrobial stewardship programs typically use days of therapy to assess antimicrobial use. However, this metric does not account for the antimicrobial spectrum of activity. We applied an antibiotic spectrum index to a population of very-low-birth-weight infants to assess its utility to evaluate the impact of antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069897164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/ice.2019.221
DO - 10.1017/ice.2019.221
M3 - Article
C2 - 31352907
AN - SCOPUS:85069897164
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 40
SP - 1181
EP - 1183
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 10
ER -