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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2019
A survey of hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs was performed to validate core element achievement data from the National Healthcare Safety Network’s (NHSN) Patient Safety Component Annual Survey. In total, 89% of hospitals met all 7 core elements, compared to only 68% according to the NHSN survey.
PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: Part of these data were presented as Abstract 9443 (Thure KA, Evans CD, Adre CJ, et al. Statewide validation of the CDC’s core elements of hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs) at the 2018 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference on June 13, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Florida.