Prevalence and Pattern of Antibiotic Usage in Paediatric Patients Admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Bihar: An Observational and Cross-sectional Study

Autor: Rajesh Kumar, Nikki Kumari, Sadhana Kumari, Md. Athar Ansari, Binod Kumar Singh
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research. :194-199
ISSN: 0976-044X
DOI: 10.47583/ijpsrr.2022.v74i02.031
Popis: Resistance to antimicrobial drugs is a global threat now. It creates burden on the health system financially and also increases the morbidity rate in pediatric age group attributed to infectious disease. To overcome this issue, it is inevitable to have pre-set guidelines for the pediatricians at the institution level. The current study was done to have an understanding of the antibiotic use among the pediatric patients admitted in the hospital. The study has also envisaged the pattern of antibiotics use among these children. An observational study was conducted among patients admitted to the inpatient paediatric department of a referral centre of Bihar, India during the period from April 2019 to March 2020. A total of 557 children were included in our study. Out of them, majority belonged to the age group of
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