Advancing Antibiotic Stewardship With Rapid Diagnostic Testing

Antibiotic-resistant pathogens stemming from antibiotic overuse are estimated to be responsible for 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections and 35,000 deaths in the United States in 2019.^1,2 The CDC established the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in 2014, and subsequently the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) created