Antibiotic Stewardship Practices and Prescribing Patterns Across Indian PICUs
| Autor: | Rakesh Lodha, Arpita Chattopadhyay, S. K. Kabra, Aparna Mukherjee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test medicine.drug_class business.industry Antibiotics Pneumonia Ventilator-Associated Intensive Care Units Pediatric beta-Lactams medicine.disease Anti-Bacterial Agents Antimicrobial Stewardship Pneumonia Intensive care Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Emergency medicine Ceftriaxone medicine Humans Blood culture Formulary Child business Empiric therapy Meningitis medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 89:872-878 |
| ISSN: | 0973-7693 0019-5456 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES To elicit antibiotic prescribing patterns across Indian Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) and assess attributes of the antibiotic stewardship programs. METHODS A link to a web-based questionnaire was sent by email to pediatric intensivists across India. RESULTS Responses were received from 62 PICUs. Majority of respondents were from private hospitals [49/62 (79.5%)]. The most commonly reported infection requiring PICU admission was community-acquired pneumonia [by 39 (62.9%) PICUs] followed by gastroenteritis [26 (41.9%)], and meningitis [15 (24.1%)]. The blood culture positivity rates varied among participating PICUs with 37 centers (59.6%) reporting low blood culture positivity yield ( |
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