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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Parry, Gareth |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | The study by DiDiodato and McAthur1 describes work to improve the care of patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. They compare length of stay of patients after the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship programme that was initially led by an infectious disease-trained pharmacist and then transitioned to a ward-based pharmacist. To estimate the impact on length of stay, they used a stepped-wedge design, where the transition to a ward-based pharmacist in four medical wards was staggered in 2 monthly intervals over an 8-month period. This quasi-experimental approach allowed the investigators to create reasonable comparator groups and meant that all wards eventually received the intervention. Consequently, DiDidato and colleagues provided a compelling estimate of the impact of transitioning to a ward-based pharmacist indicating a 19.4% relative reduction in length of stay for patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia. Such efforts to design improvement work in a way that allows an estimate of the impact relative to a comparison group remain uncommon in the published improvement field. DiDiodato and colleagues should … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000255 |
| PubMed reference number | 29436521 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 6 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/13/e0/bmjoq-2017-000255.PMC5728258.pdf |
| Journal | BMJ open quality |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |