Impact on time to active antimicrobial therapy with 24-hour pharmacist review of Accelerate Pheno BC Kit results

Patrick M Kinn; Bradley Ford; Kelly M Percival; Lukasz Weiner; Dilek Ince

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.274

Impact on time to active antimicrobial therapy with 24-hour pharmacist review of Accelerate Pheno BC Kit results

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Aug 5;2(1):e132. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.274. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Patrick M Kinn¹, Bradley Ford², Kelly M Percival¹, Lukasz Weiner³, Dilek Ince⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Care, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.
² Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.
³ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.

Abstract

The Accelerate Pheno platform provides rapid identification and susceptibility data. We demonstrate successful incorporation of 24-hour pharmacist review of Accelerate Pheno results that reduced the number of patients going >3 hours from result without an order for active antimicrobial therapy from 29 (2.8%) of 1,043 to 9 (0.85%) of 1,053 (P < .001).