A 12-page Executive Summary offering summary highlights for 22 Accountable Care Organizations and ACO solutions companies regarding their successes during the most recent MSSP performance year.
Pew Charitable Trust: 5 Key Findings Regarding Antibiotic Use in Hospitals
- Inappropriate prescriptions in terms of the specific antibiotic prescribed
- the duration of treatment
- or the illnesses for which they were given: 56%
- Inappropriate inpatient antibiotic use for community-acquired pneumonia: 79% (almost 60% of this is due to exceeding the recommended 7 days of treatment)
- Inappropriate inpatient antibiotic use for urinary tract infections: 77% (mostly patients who lacked symptoms or microbiology test results consistent with UTIs)
- Inappropriate inpatient Fluoroquinolone use in hospitals: 47%
- Inappropriate inpatient Vancomycin use in hospitals: 27%
Source: Pew Charitable Trust, March 18, 2021 - https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2021/03/health-exper…