Authors

• Lourdes Menendez Alvarado, Baptist Hospital of MiamiFollow
• Alice Landayan, South Miami HospitalFollow
• Jason Morell, West Kendall Baptist HospitalFollow
• Zhenwei Zhang, Baptist Health South FloridaFollow
• Richard Levine, Doctors HospitalFollow
• Timothy Gauthier, Baptist Health South FloridaFollow

Evaluating the Impact of Source-specific Order Sets for Sepsis on Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Emergency Department

Abstract

This retrospective cohort study found that implementing source-specific antibiotic order sets for sepsis in the emergency department increased appropriate empiric antibiotic selection from 51% to 74% (P = .01).

Publication Date

12-22-2023

Content Type

Article

PubMed ID:

38352157

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Comments

© Copyright 2023. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CCBY 4.0.

Citation

Menendez Alvarado, L. R., Margulis Landayan, A., Morell, J., Wasielewski, A. S., Zhang, Z., Levine, R., & Gauthier, T. P. (2023). Evaluating the Impact of Source-specific Order Sets for Sepsis on Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Emergency Department. Open forum infectious diseases, 11(2), ofad677. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad677