Publications by authors named "Laurent Giraudon"

Background: causes infections especially in patients with immunodeficiency or specific comorbidities. Most could be avoided through pneumococcal vaccination (PV), but PV coverage is only 20 % in France. Many studies assess methods on vaccination coverage improvement, but none evaluates pharmacist-physician collaboration in hospital on PV coverage of inpatients at-risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD).

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Multiple modes of interventions are available when implementing an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP), however, their complementarity has not yet been assessed. In a 938-bed hospital, we sequentially implemented four combined modes of interventions over one year, centralized by one infectious diseases specialist (IDS): (1) on-request infectious diseases specialist consulting service (IDSCS), (2) participation in intensive care unit meetings, (3) IDS intervention triggered by microbiological laboratory meetings, and (4) IDS intervention triggered by pharmacist alert. We assessed the complementarity of the different cumulative actions through quantitative and qualitative analysis of all interventions traced in the electronic medical record.

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