Excess Antibiotic Treatment Duration and Adverse Events in Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia: A Multihospital Cohort Study

  10 July 2019

Two thirds (67.8% [4391 of 6481]) of patients received excess antibiotic therapy. Antibiotics prescribed at discharge accounted for 93.2% of excess duration. Patients who had respiratory cultures or nonculture diagnostic testing, had a longer stay, received a high-risk antibiotic in the prior 90 days, had community-acquired pneumonia, or did not have a total antibiotic treatment duration documented at discharge were more likely to receive excess treatment. Excess treatment was not associated with lower rates of any adverse outcomes, including death, readmission, emergency department visit, or Clostridioides difficile infection. Each excess day of treatment was associated with a 5% increase in the odds of antibiotic-associated adverse events reported by patients after discharge.

Author(s): Valerie M. Vaughn, MD, MSc; Scott A. Flanders, MD; Ashley Snyder, MS; Anna Conlon, PhD; Mary A.M. Rogers, PhD, MS; Anurag N. Malani, MD; Elizabeth McLaughlin, MS, RN; Sarah Bloemers, MPH; Arjun Srinivasan, MD; Jerod Nagel, PharmD, BCPS; Scott Kaatz, DO; Danielle Osterholzer, MD; Rama Thyagarajan, MD; Lama Hsaiky, PharmD, BCPS; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc; Tejal N. Gandhi, MD
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