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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

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Administering the Right Antibiotic at the Right Time

How we got to near-perfect compliance by reassigning responsibility and changing a few forms.

Marimargaret Reichert, RN, MA, Colleen Gazzillo, RN, Stacey VanZale, PharmD

If your facility is searching for a way to consistently give patients the correct amount of the correct antibiotic at the correct time, our hospital's story may hold some important lessons for you. We're not 100-percent compliant yet, but we're close enough that we can say that what we're doing works.

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