Improving Post-discharge Antimicrobial Use

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Infections

In brief

One in five hospitalized patients is prescribed an antimicrobial at the time of discharge, and a large proportion of these post-discharge antimicrobials are unnecessary. The investigators will evaluate a novel method for reviewing post-discharge antimicrobial prescriptions in real-time with the goal of improving antimicrobial selection and duration.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05471726

Run by

Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center

People needed

10

Starts

2023-05-22

Expected to finish

2024-09-09

Last updated by the study team

2024-10-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• -The local stewardship team agrees to implement the discharge stewardship intervention on at least one inpatient service or ward.

You may not qualify if…

• -The hospital already has an audit-and-feedback process in place that focuses on antimicrobial prescribing at hospital discharge.

Where it is running

• Richard Roudebush VA Medical Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• Baltimore VA Medical Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Barnes Jewish Hospital and affiliated hospitals — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Audie L Murphy VA Medical Center — San Antonio, Texas, United States

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