Physicians warm of overuse of vancomycin in treating hospital-acquired pneumonia - Formulary

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     Vancomycin may be overused for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, perhaps because of physicians' perceptions that patients are at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study by Robert H. Eng, MD, and colleagues at the Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System in East Orange, NJ. The study was presented at the 45th ICAAC meeting in Washington, DC. The researchers sought to determine whether vancomycin was used appropriately or inappropriately for the treatment of pneumonia at their institution, in accordance with guidelines developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). To do so, they developed an electronic form at the point of antibiotic order to capture vancomycin prescribers' decisions and thoughts.

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