Antibiotics constitute a large percentage of every hospital's drug budget. In an effort to control the escalating costs of antimicrobial therapy, we focused on the usage of @entity581 at our institution. The @entity581 , @entity801 and @entity2890 , are similar in terms of antimicrobial spectra and @entity137 . Since @entity801 is much less expensive, it was felt that significant cost savings would be realized if @entity801 were to be used preferentially over @entity2890 . Specific criteria for the use of @entity2890 were developed and approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. All @entity1 prescribed parenteral @entity2890 during the five week data collection period were entered into the study. We chose to use direct verbal intervention as our method for altering physician's prescribing patterns. An educational program of intervention was set up such that when a physician prescribed @entity2890 , the @entity1 's chart was immediately reviewed. If @entity2890 was prescribed for a purpose other than those in the approved criteria for @entity2890 use, the physician was contacted personally to discuss the cost-effectiveness of @entity801 use. Utilization figures from the previous six months showed that our interventions would save approximately  32,000 over a one year period. Our interventions on @entity4028 prescribing represents a highly successful, cost-effective and educational method for altering physician's prescribing patterns.

The effect of pharmacy intervention on XXXX costs.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity801 :: ('MESH:D005839', 'Chemical') :: ['gentamicin'] @entity137 :: ('MESH:D064420', 'Disease') :: ['toxicities'] @entity2890 :: ('MESH:D014031', 'Chemical') :: ['tobramycin'] @entity581 :: ('MESH:D000617', 'Chemical') :: ['aminoglycosides'] @entity4028 :: ('CHEBI:47779', 'Chemical') :: ['aminoglycoside']
@entity4028 :: (CHEBI:47779,Chemical) :: ['aminoglycoside']
