Distinguishing the roles of antibiotic stewardship and reductions in outpatient visits in generating a five-year decline in antibiotic prescribing. Author(s): Kissler SM, Klevens RM, Barnett ML, Grad YH|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID: 32173727| March 2020 The mechanisms driving the recent decline in outpatient antibiotic prescribing are unknown. We estimated the extent to which reductions in…
Surveillance to maintain the sensitivity of genotype-based antibiotic resistance diagnostics. Author(s): Hicks AL, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M, Grad YH|Journal: PLoS Biol|PMID: 31714937| November 2019 The sensitivity of genotype-based diagnostics that predict antimicrobial susceptibility is limited by the extent to which they detect genes and…