title: An economic evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship programs in metropolitan Australian hospitals
creator: Coulter, Sonali A.
subject: Antimicrobial Stewardship
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Bloodstream infection
subject: Rapid Diagnostics
subject: Clinical Decision Support system
subject: Economic Evaluation
subject: MALDI-TOF
subject: Hospital
subject: Health Economics
subject: Health resource allocation
description: This thesis provides the first economic evaluation of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) interventions in two Metropolitan Australian Hospitals. AMS interventions are cost-saving from a hospital perspective and are cost-effective particularly if teamed with rapid diagnostics in the microbiology laboratory. The uncertainty in the mortality estimates does not allow for a high level of confidence in the cost-effectiveness decision for policy makers. While mortality is a useful metric, morbidity associated with bloodstream infections due to inappropriate prescribing needs to be collected over a longer period of time to capture the true benefits of AMS interventions.
publisher: Queensland University of Technology
date: 2018
type: Thesis
format: application/pdf
relation: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116505/9/Sonali_Coulter_Thesis.pdf
relation: DOI:10.5204/thesis.eprints.116505
relation:    Coulter, Sonali A.   (2018)   An economic evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship programs in metropolitan Australian hospitals.  PhD  thesis,   Queensland University of Technology.   
id_number: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116505/
identifier: Faculty of Health; School of Public Health & Social Work