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  • Healthcare-associated infections
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Hospital quality metrics

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  • Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are a significant healthcare concern, with hospitals nationally ranked on performance.
  • Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) aim to reduce CDI by optimizing antibiotic use.
  • The most effective ASP structures and strategies for CDI reduction are not well-established.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between hospital CDI performance ranks and the adoption of specific antimicrobial stewardship strategies.
  • To identify potential associations between postprescription audit and feedback and hospital-level CDI outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of hospital data on Clostridium difficile infection performance.
  • Categorization of hospitals into 'better,' 'no different,' or 'worse' performance ranks.
  • Comparison of the prevalence of postprescription audit and feedback strategies across different performance groups.

Main Results:

  • Hospitals ranked as 'worse' or 'no different' in CDI performance more frequently utilized postprescription audit and feedback.
  • A higher proportion of lower-performing hospitals employed this specific stewardship strategy compared to higher-performing hospitals.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest a potential inverse relationship between the use of postprescription audit and feedback and superior Clostridium difficile infection performance.
  • Further research is needed to understand why this strategy may be more prevalent in hospitals with poorer CDI outcomes and to optimize stewardship approaches.