Safety of Automatic End Dates for Antimicrobial Orders to Facilitate Stewardship

Abstract

Following implementation of automatic end dates for antimicrobial orders to facilitate antimicrobial stewardship at a large, academic children’s hospital, no differences were observed in patient mortality, length of stay, or readmission rates, even among patients with documented bacteremia.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:974–978