ANTIBIOTIC ASSISTANT LE
Increase quality of care by optimizing antimicrobial treatment decisions at your hospital. The TheraDoc® Antibiotic Assistant® LE gives you evidence-based recommendations tailored to your patient—so you can make the best decisions for their care.Annually, half of the 25 million pounds of antibiotics produced for humans are not used appropriately1. Consequently, antimicrobial resistance is escalating, leading to compromised patient care and increased healthcare costs. To optimize antimicrobial therapy and enhance patient safety, you need comprehensive treatment recommendations that enable you to prescribe accurately. You need the TheraDoc® Antibiotic Assistant® LE.
Places clinical knowledge and relevant information at your fingertips. When you're in private practice and you have a patient endangered by an infectious disease, the Antibiotic Assistant LE provides expert counsel that helps you to prescribe antimicrobials appropriately–the first time. It features a "Wizard" that incorporates expert medical knowledge and drug cost when recommending treatment for more than 20 infectious disease syndromes. Enter a minimal amount of information into a PDA or other handheld device, and the Antibiotic Assistant LE quickly delivers patient- and disease-specific antimicrobial recommendations.
Much more than a digitized reference source, this robust software takes into consideration your patient's gender, age, height, weight and renal function. If your patient has allergies or other mitigating conditions such as pregnancy, you can also submit these critically important factors. The Antibiotic Assistant LE provides first line and alternative recommendations that are dose adjusted for your patient and indicate the optimal treatment duration.
Manage infectious diseases—and treat them effectively on the go.The Antibiotic Assistant LE also features A to Z drug monographs for commonly used antimicrobials. This is an easy-to-use drug information reference that integrates successful drug therapy and evidence-based patient care. Accessible on demand, these monographs can be printed, read on-line or via a handheld.
The Antibiotic Assistant LE also offers proprietary and clinically relevant Infection Control Quick Guides. These provide guidelines for managing infectious diseases and offer the most up-to-date content describing infections, organisms and isolation precautions for specific types of outbreaks. The guides are linked to national resources, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Antibiotic Assistant LE is designed to meet the workflow needs of busy clinicians. It is an ideal tool for those without access to the full-integrated Antibiotic Assistant, which TheraDoc is implementing at an increasing number of hospitals to reduce antimicrobial resistance and improve the quality and safety of care.
You can download this valuable tool onto your PDA for free from our downloads page or at MerckMedicus .
Get real results with the Antibiotic Assistant LE.- During a nearly two-year study of rural communities in Idaho and Utah, The University of Utah documented a 32-percent reduction of inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing with the Antibiotic Wizard™.
1http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482779.
