Abstract
In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 14.2 million antibiotic prescriptions were generated from emergency department (ED) visits. It is also estimated that at least 30% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary and that the remaining 70% of prescriptions may benefit from improvements in antibiotic selection, dose, and duration of therapy. Use of clinical decision support (CDS) within the electronic health record (EHR), such as diagnosis-specific antibiotic prescription discharge order sets (with defaulted dose and dispense quantities), may assist ED providers in selecting guideline-concordant antibiotic regimens for common infectious disease states.
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