“…To date, several studies regarding ASP, including recommendations for antibiotic discontinuation, change/de-escalation, addition, and dose adjustment, have been reported. 7,16,22,25 However, most of them have focused on antibiotic usage and have not In our interventions, frequent recommendations were discontinuation and change of antibiotics (most frequent change for carbapenems was de-escalation), rather than performing TDM, also in interventions for anti-MRSA antibiotics (Table 1). This trend was consistent with other studies in which major recommendations were related to the choice of antibiotics.…”