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Impact of an institution-specific hospital-acquired pneumonia protocol on the appropriateness of antibiotic therapy and patient outcomes.

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STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of a hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) protocol on appropriateness of empiric antibiotic therapy, antibiotic deescalation, antibiotic duration, patient mortality, and length of stay. DESIGN:Before- and after-study of protocol implementation. SETTING:A 450-bed, academic medical center. PATIENTS:One hundred consecutive patients with proven or suspected HAP. INTERVENTION:Implementation of an HAP protocol that was based on the 2005 American Thoracic Society-Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines and included extensive education of clinicians and monitoring by pharmacists. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Before protocol implementation, 50 patients with HAP were evaluated against protocol criteria. After protocol implementation, a second cohort of 50 patients with HAP was evaluated. Compared with the preprotocol group, implementation of the protocol led to an increase in both the proportion of patients who received appropriate empiric antibiotic coverage (17 [34%] vs 31 [62%] patients, p=0.005) and appropriate antibiotic deescalation (21 [42%] vs 36 [72%] patients, p=0.002) according to protocol recommendations but did not affect the appropriateness of empiric antibiotic therapy based on final lung culture data (34 [68%] vs 41 [82%] patients, p=0.11). Compared with the preprotocol group, use of the protocol decreased the duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy (median [range] 9 [2-21] vs 7 [1-16] days, p=0.024), was associated with a trend for a shorter duration of stay in the intensive care unit (median [range] 19 [2-57] vs 11 [3-76] days, p=0.065), and did not significantly affect mortality (5 [10%] vs 8 [16%] patients, p=0.37). Pharmacists performed 59 interventions to support the protocol in 29 patients in the postprotocol group, of which 48% were accepted. CONCLUSIONS:Implementation of an HAP protocol improved appropriate empiric antibiotic use and decreased the duration of antibiotic therapy without adversely affecting patient outcomes.

journal_name

Pharmacotherapy

journal_title

Pharmacotherapy

authors

Lancaster JW,Lawrence KR,Fong JJ,Doron SI,Garpestad E,Nasraway SA,Devlin JW

doi

10.1592/phco.28.7.852

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-07-01 00:00:00

pages

852-62

issue

eissn

0277-0008

issn

1875-9114

pii

10.1592/phco.28.7.852

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Impact of an institution-specific hospital-acquired pneumonia protocol on the appropriateness of antibiotic therapy and patient outcomes.