Clinical Trial: Impact of a Simple Automated Best Practice Alert (BPA) on Quantity and Quality of In-hospital Antibiotic Use in a Tertiary and Three Secondary Hospitals

U.S., Aug. 12 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07115966) titled 'Impact of a Simple Automated Best Practice Alert (BPA) on Quantity and Quality of In-hospital Antibiotic Use in a Tertiary and Three Secondary Hospitals' on Aug. 04.

Brief Summary: The goal of the stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial is to assess the impact of a n antimicrobial stewardship intervention: a simple, automated BPA that reminds prescribers to reevaluate antibiotic therapy after 72 hours (24 hours for prophylaxis), according to guideline recommendations.

The primary hypothesis is that a simple BPA reduces antibiotic use in terms of quantity (amount, duration) and quality (broadness), measured in days of antibiotic spec...