A safety training program for antibiotic stewardship was associated with reductions in antibiotic use and urine culture collection in long-term care facilities, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.
“Improving antibiotic use in nursing homes is critically important, both for the individual resident, who may suffer side effects from unnecessary antibiotics, and for public health,” Morgan J. Katz, MD, MHS, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told Healio.
“Older individuals are the most susceptible to adverse effects of antibiotic use,”