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THE NHSN STANDARDIZED ANTIMICROBIAL ADMINISTRATION RATIO (SAAR) A Guide to the SAAR Updated November 2020 The STANDARDIZED ANTIMICROBIAL Administration Ratio (SAAR) is a risk-adjusted summary measure of ANTIMICROBIAL use available to acute care hospitals participating in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) ANTIMICROBIAL Use (AU) Option. Hospitals can use the SAAR to track AU, compare their AU to a national benchmark, and assess the impact of interventions aimed at improving prescribing practices. As the NHSN AU Option grows, both in its user-base and surveillance capabilities, the SAAR evolves. This document serves as guidance for users interested in understanding what the SAAR is, how NHSN develops SAARs, and how they can use the SAAR for antibiotic stewardship .
reported in 2014, as a quantitative tool for hospitals and health systems to make comparisons of antimicrobial use within and across facilities to help guide antibiotic stewardship efforts. The SAAR compares observed antimicrobial days to predicted antimicrobial days for groups of antimicrobial agents used in specified patient care locations.
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