1837. Comparison of Antibiotic Use in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Facilities Based on Proportion of Short Stay Residents Using a Long-Term Care Pharmacy Database

摘要

BackgroundCMS requires participating long-term care facilities (LTCF) to have an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP). Common barriers encountered by LTCF include lack of antibiotic use (AU) data and inability to benchmark use. We initiated a project that utilized a long-term care pharmacy (LTCPh) database to obtain and compare AU data across enrolled LTCF.