Rapid Diagnostic Testing and ABX Stewardship Combo Could Optimize Outcomes for Bacteremia

The primary goal of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) should be to optimize patients’ clinical outcomes, and rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) helps achieve this goal more so than any other intervention. Timbrook et al established the efficacy of molecular RDT with ASP intervention in the care of patients with bloodstream infections in a meta-analysis, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists recently published a position statement on the