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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.

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In this episode, Dr. April Dyer, one of the DASON Clinical Pharmacists, talks about cefepime vs piperacillin-tazobactam in adults hospitalized with acute infection. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37837651/

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Drs. Perez, Hillenbrand and Mourad do a deep dive on how to best apply one of our most common stewardship tools. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad467/7240295

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In this episode of the DASON Digest Podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Jeannette Bouchard talks to us about clinical risk scores to improve empiric antimicrobial selection for outpatient complicated urinary tract infections. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/8/ofad319/7198038#413122181

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In this episode, Dr. Rey Perez chats with Drs. Rebekah Moehring and Libby Dodds Ashley about work done by the University of Pittsburgh using a weighted lottery to equitably allocate scarce supply of COVID-19 monoclonal antibody to patients. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37656472/

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In this episode of the DASON Digest Podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Angelina Davis talks to us about the early discontinuation of antibiotics in patients admitted with clinically suspected serious infection but negative cultures. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37449298/

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Episode Notes

In this episode of the DASON Digest Podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. April Dyer talks to us about improving the efficiency of antimicrobial stewardship action in acute care facilities. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofad412/7234482

For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu