Integrating Rapid Pathogen Identification and Antimicrobial Stewardship Significantly Decreases Hospital Costs
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...in time to initiation of appropriate antibiotic therapy [158– 162], rates of recurrent infection [159], mortality [159, 163], length of stay [159, 161], and hospital costs [160, 161]....
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...reduction in reagent and labor costs [53, 57]....
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...However, there are limited data evaluating the impact of MALDI-TOF implementation on patient outcomes [6]....
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...Previously published studies include 1 noncomparator observational study, 1 observational cohort study, and 1 quasi-experimental study with stewardship intervention [6, 12, 19]....
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...5 days compared to conventional methods [6, 11, 12]....
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...Finally, Perez and colleagues [6] conducted a pre–post quasiexperimental study integrating MALDI-TOF organism identification plus AST intervention, but limited the inclusion to patients with gram-negative bacteremia....
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...However, these studies were limited by their retrospective designs, use of historical controls [5, 6, 10, 22], lack of randomization, and failure to match subjects by severity of illness [7]....
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