Efficacies and economics of easy and supportive antimicrobial stewardship program capable at small scale hospitals

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25460838
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Medical and hospital managemen
• Research Institution: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• Principal Investigator: KOIKE RYUJI 東京医科歯科大学, 医療イノベーション推進センター, 教授 (50250220)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 抗菌薬適正使用 / 医療関連感染 / 多剤耐性菌 / 医療経済

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We studied the effect of alerting comments in medical record for adequate antibiotic use, by evaluating the changes of volume of antibiotics use and frequency of detection of multi-drug resistant microbiota. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of simple and easy antimicrobial stewardship (ASP) actions under the limited infrastructure for hospital infection control. The change was very small but possibly visible when just starting alerting comments. These results suggest that even a tiny action for ASP might affect the activities of physicians but the lasting period might be short. Therefore, repeating to start new challenges could be effective for improvement of physicians’ consciousness for the control of nosocomial infection and ASP.

Free Research Field

感染症学、内科学