antibiotic use
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Antibiotic Use
... NICU antibiotic use cohort to date (127 NICUs, 52 061 infants, and 746 051 patient-days) revealed the widest known scale of antibiotic prescribing practice ...in antibiotic prescribing ...
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Differences in antibiotic use between patients with and without a regular doctor in Hong Kong
... Fourthly, this study focused on the impact of having a regular doctor. We used the multivariable logistic regression to adjust the effects of age, sex, education, income and type of healthcare system attended (private vs ...
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Antibiotic use in acute pancreatitis : an audit of current practice in a tertiary centre
... optimal use of antibiotics is important. Under-use may lead to inadequate treatment of infection whereas over-use encourages emergence of resistant bacterial flora and leads to a reduction in ...
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Variability in Antibiotic Use at Children's Hospitals
... of antibiotic orders that were broad- spectrum (as defined ...hospital-specific use rates (the per- centage of patients who received anti- biotic agents or per 1000 patient-days) were calculated using ...
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PATTERN OF ANTIBIOTIC USE AND THEIR RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS ADMITTED IN ICU
... of antibiotic consumption is high in critically ill ...of antibiotic resistance worsens the present ...analyze antibiotic consumption, antibiotic use was recorded in admitted patients ...
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Recent Trends in Outpatient Antibiotic Use in Children
... the antibiotic-dispensing rate per person-year for OM declined at all sites between 2000 – 2001 and 2009 – 2010 (A: ...in antibiotic prescribing for OM accounted for 54%, 59%, and 74% of the total drop in ...
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Antibiotic use during pregnancy: how bad is it?
... Background: Our microbial companions (the “ microbiota ” ) are extremely important for the preservation of human health. Although changes in bacterial communities (dysbiosis) are commonly associated with disease, such ...
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Antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections in children: A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of parents in Greece
... towards antibiotic use in URIs (section B, questions 24-38); and (3) practise concerning the ways that parents demonstrate their knowledge and attitude through their actions (section C, questions ...
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The Effect of a Community Intervention Trial on Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance and Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Children
... To achieve a final total sample of 430 households for the base- line survey, 2 random samples of 400 households (one each in the control and intervention areas) with a child ⬍4 years of age were selected from the MESA ...
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Cross-sectional survey on the use and impact of the Danish national antibiotic use guidelines for companion animal practice
... perioperative use of antibiotics, since both users and non-users reported very limited use of antibiotics for this ...restrictive use of antibiotics in surgery that is well established amongst ...
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Trends in Outpatient Antibiotic Use in 3 Health Plans
... in antibiotic use particularly in light of continuing attention to antibiotic stewardship in both inpatient and community ...of antibiotic prescribing for several age ...
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Trends in Antibiotic Use in Massachusetts Children, 2000–2009
... population-based antibiotic-dispensing rates (number of antibiotic dispensings divided by number of p-y) with 95% con fi dence intervals were determined for each age group by ...
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Variations in Neonatal Antibiotic Use
... and antibiotic use–days; (3) the mean clinical and resource correlate values for NICUs in AUR quartile 1 versus quartiles 2 to ...and antibiotic-days over 2, 3, and 4 years by paired t ...organized ...
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Neonatal Antibiotic Use: How Much Is Too Much?
... the antibiotic use rate (AUR), which was defined as the total number of patient days that infants were exposed to at least 1 parenteral antimicrobial medication per 100 patient ...overall antibiotic ...
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Parents, Physicians, and Antibiotic Use
... an antibiotic when the physician did not feel it was indi- ...oral antibiotic use and 54% indicated that parental pressure, in contrast to concerns about legal liability (12%) or need to be efficient ...
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Outpatient Antibiotic Use and the Need for Increased Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts
... outpatient antibiotic prescribing practices in the United ...describe antibiotic prescribing across all patient age groups, we highlight prescribing in pediatric populations when data are ...inappropriate ...
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Prevalence of Parental Misconceptions About Antibiotic Use
... unnecessary antibiotic use were misunderstood by the general public regarding what illnesses would, or would not, benefit from antibiotic ...regarding antibiotic use in common childhood ...
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Urinary tract infections and antibiotic use in pregnancy qualitative analysis of online forum content
... unnecessary use of antibiotics is strongly associated with a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is the ability of bacteria to survive in spite of anti- biotic treatment leading to life threatening ...
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Emergency department antibiotic use for exacerbations of COPD
... the antibiotic guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneu- monia, we explicitly excluded patients with a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia from our study ...
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The strategy of antibiotic use in critically ill neutropenic patients
... of antibiotic resis- tance in the long run ...or use of specific protective gear (gowns, gloves, and masks) are not mandatory except for hema- topoietic stem cell transplant ...
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