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Prescribing Pattern of Vancomycin in a Community Teaching Hospital With Low Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Chatrchai Watanakunakorn
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Abstract

A one-month prospective survey of all inpatients given vancomycin was performed in a community teaching hospital with a low prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Only 20 of the 97 vancomycin orders written from August 1 to September 1, 1996, were consistent with Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines. Surgical prophylaxis accounted for 37 of the 77 orders inconsistent with HICPAC guidelines.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 767 - 769
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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