Table 2.

AMS interventions implemented in the hospitals.

Patient care area	Description of AMS intervention	Measure of success	Source of Data for measurement	Impact
Outpatient	Educational intervention for physicians to rationalize use of antibiotics with a standard treatment algorithm for patients with uncomplicated Upper Respiratory Tract Infections	Days of Therapy (DOT), measured before and after the intervention	Outpatient records of patients and copies of prescriptions stored in pharmacies	Failure, as the overall reduction in DOT was not statistically significant
Inpatient	Educational intervention for physicians to consider patients for de-escalation of antibiotic therapy, 48 hours after admission to internal medicine ward	Proportion of eligible patients undergoing de-escalation of antibiotic therapy.	In patient records and doctors order sheets for patients	Failure, as only less than 5% of the eligible participants had de-escalation of antibiotic therapy.