title: Implementing a strategy for monitoring inpatient antimicrobial use among hospitals in the United States.
abstract: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pursuing 3 distinct, complementary efforts focused on providing data for action, including facility-level use metrics for benchmarking across comparable patient care settings, national estimates of usage patterns using sentinel surveillance sites, and limited assessments using proprietary data.
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Scott K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Fridkin
authors.forename: Arjun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019985:Benchmarking; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: antibiotic resistance; antibiotic stewardship; antibiotic use; healthcare-associated infections; patient safety; surveillance