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Differences in antimicrobial susceptibility among hospitals in an integrated health system
T J Lubowski1, J L Woon, P Hogan
1Pfizer Inc, New York, New York 10017, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|August 25, 2001
Abstract:
We evaluated the differences in antimicrobial susceptibility among hospitals in three different integrated healthcare systems. Each system provided antibiogram-susceptibility reports from representative hospitals. Reports were analyzed for statistically significant differences between hospitals in a given system for nine important organisms. We found numerous significant interhospital differences in antimicrobial-susceptibility patterns within health systems. For this reason, the practice of combining antibiotic-susceptibility data into a systemwide antibiogram should be discouraged.