Inpatient Management of Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in 34 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers: A Medication Use Evaluation

Sutton, Jesse; Carico, Ronald; Burk, Muriel; Jones, Makoto; Wei, Xiangming; M. Neuhauser, Melinda; Bidwell Goetz, Matthew; Echevarria, Kelly; S Spivak, Emily; Cunningham, Francesca; and Soft Tissue Infection Medication Use Evaluation Group, Skin; Goolsby, Tiffany; S Witt, Lucy; Hong, Joseph; Landayan, Patrick; Shatz, Katelyn; Pontefract, Benjamin; Murdock, Kaysie; Gallegos-Salazar, Jaime; Strymish, Judith; Chang, Mei‐Hwei; Poon, Henry; Vest, Kirsten; A. Tinsley, Nicholas; Bockenstedt, Gregory; Patel, Darshan; Message, John; Ang, Gordon; Banerjee, Archana; Fry, Sarah; S. Rose, Michael; Hiett, Jason; Tate, Victoria; Fisher, Ann; Kotansky, Brian; Vu, Van; Dhar, Sorabh; Kuhn, Ryan; Willis, S.; B. Britt, Rachel; L. Townsend, Mary; Little, Erica; Williams, Lisa; Ficek, Elizabeth; Tell, Renae; Liu, Xuxuan; Pasciak, John; Iliuta, Ruth; Bennett, Jessica; Germinario, Victoria; Jacobs, Elizabeth; M Spivey, Justin; Vannoy, M.; A. Foral, Pamela; Feller, Christine; Nguyen, Hien; Lu, Shu; Burns, Tim; Khan, Paris; Kouma, Marcus; J. Buehrle, Deanna; Ruzzi, Nicholas; MacKay, Kimberly; Tran, Lisa; Emberger, Jennifer; Sann, Khine; Tassone, Daniel; S Spivak, Emily; Sutton, Jesse; Chow, Sean; Ma, Ariel; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Edmarielis; Cintron, Hector; Aylward, Andrea; Taylor Daniel, K; Welu, Jenna; Pickard, Cameron; Sanchez, Chelsea; Shafiq, Ashfaq; Skouby, Danielle; O’Donnell, Jill; Surdy, Michael

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz554

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Inpatient Management of Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in 34 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers: A Medication Use Evaluation

Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases • Jan 1, 2020

Authors:

Jesse Sutton

Ronald Carico

Muriel Burk

Abstract

Abstract Background Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are a key antimicrobial stewardship target because they are a common infection in hospitalized patients, and non-guideline-concordant antibiotic use is frequent. To inform antimicrobial stewardship interventions, we evaluated the proportion...

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Medicine

Antimicrobial stewardship

Antibiotics

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