Abstract

Many antibiotic stewardship interventions are not well-enough grounded in theory to understand why they succeed or fail.

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  • Many antibiotic stewardship interventions are not wellenough grounded in theory to understand why they succeed or fail

  • A multi-pronged informatics intervention for antibiotic stewardship was implemented in a large US Veterans Affairs Medical Center

  • The objective of the program was to encourage providers to discontinue unnecessary antibiotics on or after antibiotic day three. It required the use of a template note for self-approval of antibiotics to nudge teams away from continuing vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam

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Introduction

Many antibiotic stewardship interventions are not wellenough grounded in theory to understand why they succeed or fail. A cognitive perspective of an antibiotic timeout program M Jones1*, J Butler2, C Graber3, P Glassman3, MH Samore2, C Weir2, MB Goetz3 Introduction Many antibiotic stewardship interventions are not wellenough grounded in theory to understand why they succeed or fail.

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