Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is an important patient safety issue and is among the greatest public health threats today. A behaviorally enhanced quality improvement (QI) intervention reduced inappropriate prescribing for acute respiratory infections for emergency department (ED) encounters in our health system. There is a paucity of data on clinical decision support (CDS) implementation in the ED to compliment an antibiotic stewardship program. As part of our multifaceted QI intervention, a CDS was implemented to decrease inappropriate antibiotic prescribing of fluoroquinolones (FQ) and azithromycin in the ED.

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