{"id":1728,"date":"2014-03-06T02:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2014-03-06T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:32:12","slug":"patient-safety-week-2014-ctcps-highlights-antibiotics-and-their-overuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Patient Safety Week 2014 – CTCPS highlights Antibiotics and their Overuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is Patient Safety Week, and we would like to highlight a medical concern that we are actively working on:\u00a0 Infections and the overuse of antibiotics.<\/p>\n

According to the CDC<\/a>, “every day, about 1 in every 20 hospitalized patients has an infection caused by receiving medical care.\u00a0 In 2010, 31.3% of patients who acquired a healthcare associated infections were readmitted within 30 days for an infection or complication.”<\/p>\n

According to a recent announcement <\/a>by Tom Frieden at the CDC, there is enormous variability in the rate at which antibiotics are prescribed from one hospital to the next – as much as three-fold!\u00a0 This leads to the conclusion that even a small reduction in the amount of overprescribing will have a significant impact in reducing the number of infections, super-infections and C. difficile.\u00a0 Shortly after the announcement, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America noted that routine overuse of antibiotics puts patients in harm’s way.<\/p>\n

At CTCPS, we are working to bring about changes in the way that antibiotics are prescribed, following these findings, so that patients will not leave the hospital with more problems than they entered with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is Patient Safety Week, and we would like to highlight a medical concern that we are actively working on:\u00a0 Infections and the overuse of antibiotics. According to the CDC, <\/p>\n

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