A novel risk-adjusted metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at hospital discharge

By sjmartinez • April 25, 2024

Livorsi DJ, Merchant JA, Cho H, Goetz MB, Alexander B, Beck B, Goto M. A novel risk-adjusted metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at hospital discharge. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 24:ciae224. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae224. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38658348.

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