Impact of Diagnostic Stewardship on Urine Culture Ordering in Saudi Arabia: Prospective Pre- and Postintervention Study

Ahlam Alghamdi   ¹ , PharmD ;   Afrah Alkazemi   ² , PharmD ;   Alnada Ibrahim   ¹ , PharmD ;   Mohammed Alraey   ³ , MD ;   Mohammed Alaboud   ³ , MD ;   Isra Farooqi   ³ , MD ;   Mohammad Aatif Khan   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Asem Allam   ³ , MD ;   Mohammed Alwadai   ⁵ , PharmD ;   Renad Alyahya   ⁶ ;   Ohoud Alzahrani   ⁶ ;   Hajar Y AlQahtani   ^{7, 8, 9} , PharmD ;   Amir Mohareb   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Muneerah Aleissa   ¹ , PharmD

¹ Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

² Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait

³ Department of Infectious Diseases, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁴ Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁵ Pharmaceutical Care Services, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁶ College of Pharmacy, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁷ Department of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁸ King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁹ King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

¹⁰ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States