Does local matter? Evaluating susceptibility variations between hospital-wide and hematology-oncology unit antibiograms

Rachel Bartash; Erika Orner; Kelsie Cowman; Wendy Szymczak; Priya Nori; Noah Kornblum; Margaret McCort

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.36

Does local matter? Evaluating susceptibility variations between hospital-wide and hematology-oncology unit antibiograms

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Jun 21;2(1):e98. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.36. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Rachel Bartash¹, Erika Orner², Kelsie Cowman¹, Wendy Szymczak², Priya Nori¹, Noah Kornblum³, Margaret McCort¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
² Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
³ Department Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Abstract

Antibiograms are important for guiding empiric antibiotics for febrile neutropenia. However, hospital-wide antibiograms may not capture complexities of patients with hematologic malignancies. We created a hematology-oncology unit-specific antibiogram and found higher resistance among Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Enterococcus isolates compared to hospital-wide data.