Outcomes of an electronic medical record (EMR)–driven intensive care unit (ICU)-antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) ward round: Assessing the “Five Moments of Antimicrobial Prescribing”

The integration of EMR with an ICU-AMS program allowed us to implement a new AMS service, which was associated with high clinician compliance with recommendations and improved antibiotic appropriateness. Our "5 Moments of Antimicrobial Prescribing" metric provides a framework for measuring AMS recommendation compliance.