A review of extended coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) isolation duration among inpatients in a tertiary-care hospital-Iowa, 2020-2022.

Of the 2,668 patients admitted with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 4% underwent prolonged isolation for >20 days. Reasons for extended isolation were inconsistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines in 25% of these patients and were questionable in 54% due to an ongoing critically ill condition at day 20 without CDC-defined immunocompromised status.

Implementation of a multifaceted program to sustainably improve appropriate intraoperative antibiotic redosing.

BACKGROUND: National guidelines recommend intraoperative redosing of prophylactic antibiotics at defined intervals to reduce the risk of surgical site infections. Compliance with these guidelines is poor. METHODS: A quality improvement project-including education, progress reports, and automated redosing reminders in the anesthesia electronic health record-was implemented at a large university-affiliated hospital to increase rates of intraoperative antibiotic redosing for surgeries lasting more than 4 hours. A retrospective, observational study was then conducted. The primary outcome was the compliance rate with intraoperative antibiotic redosing criteria for all surgeries lasting more than 4 hours in the pre- and post-project period. The effect of the intervention was assessed by an interrupted time-series Poisson regression model. RESULTS: A total of 13,695 surgical procedures were evaluated. Time-series analysis demonstrated that the project was associated with significant improvement of compliance rates (incidence rate ratio [IRR]: 1.16; P = .002) with no significant change in underlying improvement trend (IRR: 1.00; P = .22). DISCUSSION: Few peer-reviewed manuscripts describe effective methods to ensure appropriate antibiotic redosing during prolonged surgeries. We demonstrated that a multipronged approach was very effective at producing immediate and sustained improvements in guideline compliance. CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of a multifaceted intervention improved rates of guideline-concordant redosing of intraoperative prophylactic antibiotics.