MPH alumni Talbot and Barocas: Protocol reduces antibiotic use prior to cytoscopy
A study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) by Justin Gregg, MD, and colleagues demonstrates how a clinical protocol can help reduce unnecessary use of outpatient antibiotics.
Urologic surgeons and infectious diseases specialists at VUMC wrote and implemented a protocol for the use of prophylactic antibiotics in patients undergoing cystoscopy, an outpatient procedure urologists use to examine a patient’s bladder that involves threading a thin flexible tube fitted with a miniature scope through the urethra.
Gregg was joined in the study by Rohan Bhalla, J. Paul Cook, Caroline Kang, MD, PhD, Roger Dmochowski, MD, MMgt, Thomas Talbot III, MD, MPH, and Daniel Barocas, MD, MPH. The study was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (TR000445)