Background: Antibiotic stewardship (AS) ward rounds are a core element in clinical care for surgical patients. Therefore, we aimed to analyze the impact of surgical AS ward rounds on antibiotic prescribing, and the sustainability of the effect after the AS interventions are no longer provided.
Methods: On four wards of the department of visceral surgery, we conducted two independent retrospective prescribing analyses (P1, P2) over three months each.