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Title: | Implementation of a Cellulitis Management Plan in Three Australian Regional Health Services to Address an Evidence–Practice Gap in Antibiotic Prescribing. |
Author: | Bishop, Jaclyn L. Jones, Mark Farquharson, J. Summerhayes, Katherine Tucker, Roxanne Smith, M. Cowan, Raquel Friedman, N. D. Schulz, T. Kong, David. C. M. Buising, K. |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publication Title: | Antibiotics |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page: | 1288 |
Abstract: | Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines, antibiotics for cellulitis remain inappropriately prescribed. This evidence–practice gap is more evident in low-resource settings, such as rural hospitals. This implementation study developed and introduced a cellulitis management plan to improve antibiotic prescribing for cellulitis in three health services in regional Australia. Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing for cellulitis at Day 1 was the primary outcome measure. Adults with ICD-10-AM codes for lower-limb cellulitis admitted as inpatients of the three health services between May and November 2019 (baseline, n = 165) and March and October 2020 (post-implementation, n = 127) were included in the assessment. The uptake of the cellulitis management plan was 29.1% (37/127). The appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing for cellulitis at Day 1 was similar at baseline (78.7%, 144/183) and in the intention-to-treat post-implementation group (81.8%, 126/154) [95% CI −5.6% to 11.3%, p = 0.50]. Commencement of the cellulitis management plan resulted in a non-statistically significant increase in antibiotic appropriateness at Day 1 compared to when a cellulitis management plan was not commenced (88.1% vs. 79.5%; 95% CI −5.6% to 19.8%; p = 0.20) Evaluation of more real-world strategies to address evidence–practice gaps, such as the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing for cellulitis, is required |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/1850 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10111288 |
Internal ID Number: | 01859 |
Health Subject: | CELLULITIS ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP APPROPRIATENESS RURAL |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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