General surgeon's antibiotic stewardship: Climbing the Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Curve-Prospective Cohort Study

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY

卷:40

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Rizan, Chantelle¹  Phee, Jaewon²  Boardman, Charlotte³  Khera, Goldie¹ 

[1] Royal Sussex Cty Hosp, Brighton & Sussex Univ Hosp NHS Trust, Eastern Rd, Brighton BN2 5BE, E Sussex, England

[2] Brighton & Sussex Med Sch, Brighton Rd, Brighton BN1 9PX, E Sussex, England

[3] Crawley Univ Hosp NHS Trust, W Green Dr, Crawley RH11 7DH, England

关键词: Antibiotic stewardship;    Innovation adoption;    General surgery;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.02.040

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Introduction: The primary aim of this study was to establish concordance of general surgeon's prescribing practice with local IV-oral antibiotic guidelines. The secondary aim was to evaluate the effect of introducing educational antibiotic measures. The Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Model was used to explore the adoption of antibiotic stewardship practices. Methods: In this prospective, cohort study, data was collected on 100 pre and 100 post awareness intervention programme patients. The educational intervention comprised raising awareness of a) the guidelines b) pre-intervention results c) introducing an IV-oral antibiotic prompt sheet. The concordance with local guidelines was compared between pre-and post-intervention groups using Fisher's Exact Test or Pearson's Chi Test (SPSS Statistics V22). Results: The concordance of general surgical doctors with local IV-oral antibiotic guidelines was poor and did not improve significantly following the awareness intervention programme. There was no uptake of the antibiotic prompt sheet. There was a trend towards increase in the number of patients switched from IV to oral antibiotics at 48-72 h and significant increase (p < 0.05) in number of patients with clearly documented intention to review IV antibiotics. Conclusion: Antibiotic governance measures failed to inspire even an initial group of innovators to use the antibiotic prompt sheets. It appears educational measures are effective in improving prescribing behavior and intent amongst a group of early adopters, but this fails to reach a critical mass. In order to improve antibiotic governance and embark upon the Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Curve, more must be done to engage general surgical doctors in timely, judicious antibiotic prescribing. (C) 2017 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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