Patient education and counseling play a critical role in preventing C. difficile recurrence, and pharmacists are uniquely positioned to provide treatment recommendations, educate patients and health care providers, optimize transitions of care, and reduce the risk of recurrent CDI.
The real-time delivery of patient information can improve mortality rates among patients with bloodstream infections, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Researchers found that pneumonia patients who were switched early from IV to oral antibiotics had shorter hospital stays and fewer days on antibiotics.