By Ethan Covey
The use of prospective audit and feedback (PAF) can help decrease suboptimal antimicrobial prescribing at hospital discharge, according to data presented at the IDWeek 2021 virtual meeting (poster 159).
The results highlight ways that antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) can assist in ensuring medicines, particularly antimicrobials, are appropriately prescribed as patients leave the hospital.
“While there has been some research on the impact of ASPs at patient hospital