Authors:
F. Palacios
1
;
M. Campos
2
;
J. M. Juarez
2
;
S. E. Cosgrove
3
;
E. Avdic
3
;
B. Canovas-Segura
2
;
A. Morales
2
;
M. E. Martínez-Nuñez
1
;
T. Molina-García
1
;
P. García-Hierro
1
and
J. Cacho-Calvo
1
Affiliations:
1
University Hospital of Getafe, Spain
;
2
University of Murcia, Spain
;
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, United States
Keyword(s):
Decision Support System, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The World Health Organization has declared that antimicrobial resistance is a major public health issue and one of the three greatest threats to human health. Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs, ASP, are institutional approaches to curb the threat of antimicrobial resistance, improve the safety of patients receiving antibiotics, and decrease antibiotic costs. Medical informatics in all areas, particularly the Electronic Health Record (EHR), has become a paradigm of modern medicine. An intelligent system integrated in EHR can play an important role in facilitating ASP activities. In this article we describe the experience of integration of a newly developed medical decision support system into an antimicrobial stewardship program in a mid-size hospital.