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Identification and voluntary reduction of vancomycin use for perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis during coronary
S M Pear1, D L Goldsmith, T H Williamson
1Medical Service, Tucson Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, AZ 85723, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|August 14, 1998
Abstract:
Vancomycin prophylaxis for coronary artery bypass graft surgery without prosthetic valve implantation voluntarily decreased from 94% to 18% in one medical center. Median hospital stay (10 vs 9 days, P = .30) and number of postoperative infections (17.0% vs 14.3%, P = .60) did not differ among patients who received vancomycin and those who did not.