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JAC Advance Access published online on November 1, 2006
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkl438
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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The potential role of computerized decision support systems to improve empirical antibiotic prescribing

Peter Davey 1 *

1 Health Informatics Centre, Division of Community Health Sciences, Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee DD2 4BF, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Peter Davey, E-mail: p.g.davey{at}chs.dundee.ac.uk


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Prudent antibiotic prescribing is a cornerstone of efforts to control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance and to reduce the occurrence of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea, and is also currently the subject of a joint Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the Hospital Infection Society. An article in this issue of the Journal describes a cluster randomized trial of an intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing using TREAT, a computerized decision support system. The results from this trial provide a significant contribution to the development of evidence-based prescribing of antibiotics.

Keywords: TREAT; antibiotic treatment; antibiotic resistance.
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