Antimicrobial resistance is one of today''s most urgent public health problems. An important strategy to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance is the promotion of judicious antimicrobial use. There are many opportunities to reduce unnecessary antimicrobial-prescribing, including in patients undergoing surgical procedures. The following study will specifically study opportunities to improve antimicrobial use in patients undergoing common urologic procedures at hospitals in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Guidelines recommend giving antibiotics for no more than 24-hours after most urologic procedures, but the investigators have shown that the unnecessary use of post-procedural antimicrobials is common in this setting. In a national cohort of nearly 30,000 VHA patients, excessive post-procedural antimicrobials were prescribed after 37.2% of urologic procedures for a median duration of 3.0 excess days. In this study, the investigators will evaluate whether giving regular feedback to providers at 3 VHA hospitals can reduce unnecessary antimicrobial use after urologic procedures.
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Percentage of Cases Who Received Excessive Post-procedural Antimicrobials
Timeframe: Within 1 day of the urologic procedure