{"id":228669,"date":"2026-01-09T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/prospective-audit-and-feedback-to-reduce-antibiotic-overuse-at-hospital-discharge"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:15:47","slug":"prospective-audit-and-feedback-to-reduce-antibiotic-overuse-at-hospital-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/prospective-audit-and-feedback-to-reduce-antibiotic-overuse-at-hospital-discharge","title":{"rendered":"Prospective Audit and Feedback to Reduce Antibiotic Overuse at Hospital Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cluster RCT: A discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback intervention did not reduce overall antibiotic use at hospital discharge but improved optimal discharge prescribing for common infections; broader approaches are needed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Question Does a discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback process decrease antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong> In this stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial across participating units at 10 hospitals with 21 842 admissions, the frequency and duration of antibiotic prescribing at hospital discharge did not decrease after implementing a prospective audit and feedback process. However, in selected patients with uncomplicated infections, optimal antibiotic-prescribing increased once the intervention went into effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meaning<\/strong> Discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback was not effective in reducing general antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge, but it did improve antibiotic prescribing in a subset of patients, suggesting that other strategies are needed to prevent unnecessary antibiotic use at this transition of care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cluster RCT: A discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback intervention did not reduce overall antibiotic use at hospital discharge but improved optimal discharge prescribing for common infections; broader approaches are needed. Question Does a discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback process decrease antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge? Findings In this stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial across participating units [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}