ANti-infective Stewardship Using the Wisca Tool in the Electronic Medical Record

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Conditions studied: Bacterial Infections

In brief

Beginning in the mid-to late 1980s and accelerating through the 1990s and 2000s the shield of antibiotic invincibility began to crack sufficiently so that it was apparent to everyone we faced a serious problem. The investigators will demonstrate and expand the use of information technology based on the ingenious weighted-incidence, syndromic, combination antibiogram (WISCA) tool for the widespread use of automated clinician prompts enhancing empiric antibiotic therapy as part of a comprehensive infection control stewardship program that reduces antibiotic resistance. This research program will demonstrate that use of such a tool lowers mortality, improves outcome, lowers antimicrobial resistance and reduces healthcare cost.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03397433

Run by

Endeavor Health

People needed

9673

Starts

2015-06-15

Expected to finish

2019-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any person admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, cellulitis, intraabdominal infection, or urinary tract infection

You may not qualify if…

• Any person without the 4 studied infections

Where it is running

• NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute — Evanston, Illinois, United States

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