Highlights
- •Antimicrobial stewardship is needed in pediatric post-acute care facilities.
- •Less than half of surveyed facilities had implemented stewardship practices.
- •Lack of treatment guidelines was the most commonly identified barrier to stewardship.
Providers in pediatric post-acute care facilities were surveyed about knowledge of
and resources for antimicrobial stewardship. All agreed that antibiotics were overused
in such pediatric facilities, but 60% had not implemented stewardship strategies.
Lack of treatment guidelines (47%) was identified as the most common barrier to antimicrobial
stewardship.
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Publication history
Published online: November 15, 2017
Footnotes
C.J. was supported by Columbia University (NY), by NIH NIAID T32 Training Grant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (AI007531). M.J. was supported by the Weinstein Foundation at Columbia University.
The data presented in this paper were presented as an abstract at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring 2017 Conference, St Louis, MO, March 29-31, 2017.
Conflicts of Interest: None to report.
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