{"id":311,"date":"2017-08-11T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=311"},"modified":"2017-08-07T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:46:11","slug":"pharmacist-driven-intervention-improves-care-of-patients-with-staphylococcus-aureus-bacteremia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/08\/11\/pharmacist-driven-intervention-improves-care-of-patients-with-staphylococcus-aureus-bacteremia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacist-Driven Intervention Improves Care of Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><em>Staphylococcus aureus\u00a0<\/em>bacteremia (SAB) is associated\u00a0with significant morbidity and mortality.\u00a0 Previous studies have shown\u00a0Infectious Diseases\u00a0(ID) consultation\u00a0for patients with SAB\u00a0optimizes care and reduces mortality.\u00a0 A recent\u00a0study highlights outcomes of\u00a0a pharmacist-driven intervention to encourage\u00a0adherence to SAB quality-of-care measures and ID consultation in an Ohio medical center.\u00a0 The\u00a0study investigators\u00a0found that these interventions significantly increased compliance to\u00a0SAB quality-of-care measures from 69% to 92% and ID consultation from 76% to 95%.\u00a0 Although\u00a0not statistically significant, all-cause mortality\u00a0reduced by 6-fold, from 15.6% to 2.6%, after\u00a0implementation of these\u00a0interventions.\u00a0 For additional details,\u00a0please read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/article\/65\/2\/194\/3101069\/An-Automated-Pharmacist-Driven-Initiative-Improves\">Wenzler E,\u00a0<em>et al<\/em>. Clin Infect Dis 2017;65(2):194-200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Content courtesy of Philip Chung, PharmD, MS, BCPS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staphylococcus aureus\u00a0bacteremia (SAB) is associated\u00a0with significant morbidity and mortality.\u00a0 Previous studies have shown\u00a0Infectious Diseases\u00a0(ID) consultation\u00a0for patients with SAB\u00a0optimizes care and reduces mortality.\u00a0 A recent\u00a0study highlights outcomes of\u00a0a pharmacist-driven intervention to encourage\u00a0adherence to SAB quality-of-care measures and ID consultation in an Ohio medical center.\u00a0 The\u00a0study investigators\u00a0found that these interventions significantly increased compliance to\u00a0SAB quality-of-care measures from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nebraska-asap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}