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cord-007068-vcfs41eb	Moradi, Tony	Use of Procalcitonin and a Respiratory Polymerase Chain Reaction Panel to Reduce Antibiotic Use via an Electronic Medical Record Alert	2019-10-22		.txt	text/plain	3669	197	38	We sought to determine whether an automated electronic medical record best practice alert (BPA) based on procalcitonin and respiratory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results could help reduce inappropriate antibiotic use in patients with likely viral respiratory illness. In the study group, a BPA alerted providers of the diagnostic results suggesting viral infection and prompted them to reassess the need for antibiotics. CONCLUSIONS: The automated antimicrobial stewardship BPA effectively reduced antibiotic use and discharge prescribing rates when diagnostics suggested viral respiratory tract infection, without a higher rate for reinitiation of antibiotics after discontinuation. The aim of our study was to determine if antibiotic use could be reduced by deploying an automated antimicrobial stewardship provider alert that prompted antibiotic de-escalation if 3 criteria were met: PCT <0.25 ng/mL, virus detected on respiratory PCR, and active use of systemic antibiotics.	./cache/cord-007068-vcfs41eb.txt	./txt/cord-007068-vcfs41eb.txt