Does your hospital need to battle the growing problem of antibiotic resistance? If so, a metric for measuring antibiotic use developed by the CDC—the Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR)—may be useful.
“When administrators look at data, nobody wants to be the outlier, especially to their peers,” said Jason Newland, MD, MEd, a professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where