Differences in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Among Hospitals in an Integrated Health System

We evaluated the differences in antimicrobial susceptibility among hospitals in three different integrated healthcare systems. Each system provided antibiogram susceptibility reports from representative hospitals. Reports were analyzed for statistically significant differences between hospitals in a...

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Published in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2001-06, Vol.22 (6), p.379-382
Main Authors: Lubowski, Teresa J., Woon, John L., Hogan, Patricia, Hwang, Ching‐Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibacterial agents
Antibiotics
Antibiotics. Antiinfectious agents. Antiparasitic agents
Antimicrobials
Biological and medical sciences
Central venous catheterization
Concise Communications
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Health care industry
Hepatitis B virus
Hospital beds
Hospitals
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infections
Medical sciences
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Nursing
Peripheral catheterization
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Quality of Health Care
United States
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Summary:We evaluated the differences in antimicrobial susceptibility among hospitals in three different integrated healthcare systems. Each system provided antibiogram susceptibility reports from representative hospitals. Reports were analyzed for statistically significant differences between hospitals in a given system for nine important organisms. We found numerous significant interhospital differences in antimicrobial‐susceptibility patterns within health systems. For this reason, the practice of combining antibiotic susceptibility data into a systemwide antibiogram should be discouraged (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2001;22:000‐000).
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1086/501918