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In this episode of the DASON Digest Podcast, one of our DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaisons, Dr. Melissa Johnson, talks with Dr. Jim Lewis, ID Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator and Adjunct Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University Departments of Pharmacy and ID in Portland, Oregon. The material reviewed in today's podcast can be found here: https://clsi.org/standards/products/microbiology/documents/m100/

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In this episode of the DASON Digest podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. April Dyer talks to us about how to incorporate adverse event feedback into antibiotic stewardship. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38415083/

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In this episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaisons Drs. Jeannette Bouchard and Libby Dodds-Ashley walk us through the details of a recent article published in ASHE to assess the impact of a clinical decision support survey to improve GI Panel ordering appropriateness at a VA. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38415090/

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In this episode of the DASON Digest podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Angelina Davis talks to us about the use of active versus passive methods of responding to rapid diagnostic blood culture results. The article reviewed can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36483427/

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In this episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Jeannette Bouchard is joined by Dr. Kevin Garey, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health and senior author of the reviewed article. They walk us through the details of the microbiome effects oral omadacycline has versus oral vancomycin and what this might mean for the future of the treatment for C. difficile infections. The materials reviewed in today's episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38051631/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22563022/

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In this episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaisons Drs. Melissa Johnson and Jeannette Bouchard discuss an article from ASHE on high-dose oral beta-lactam definitive therapy compared to fluoroquinolone or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole oral therapy for bacteremia secondary to a urinary tract infection. The article reviewed can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37771747/

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In this episode, Dr. April Dyer, one of our DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaisons, talks to us about source specific order sets leading to improved empiric therapy in the ED in a 200 bed hospital. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofad677/7491622#

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In this episode, Drs. Bouchard, Dodds Ashley, and Perez review a large study tackling inappropriate antimicrobial use in the outpatient setting. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofad585/7439469

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In this episode, Drs. Libby Dodds Ashley and Jeannette Bouchard, two of our DASON Clinical Pharmacists, talk to us about bringing and end to VAP. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37888914/

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This week we would like to use the feed to share a great episode of Sara Dong's podcast "Febrile."  Members of our DASON team and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America's antimicrobial stewardship committee celebrate antibiotic awareness week by discussing stewardship teams and an example case.