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Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department
Sepsis is a condition that requires appropriate antibiotic treatment at the emergency department (ED). Most previous studies conducted on inappropriate antibiotic use at the ED were conducted in developed countries with a low percentage of sepsis. This study aimed to find additional clinical predict...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31505779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030142 |
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author | Phungoen, Pariwat Kraisriwattana, Areerat Apiratwarakul, Korakot Wonglakorn, Lumyai Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak |
author_facet | Phungoen, Pariwat Kraisriwattana, Areerat Apiratwarakul, Korakot Wonglakorn, Lumyai Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak |
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description | Sepsis is a condition that requires appropriate antibiotic treatment at the emergency department (ED). Most previous studies conducted on inappropriate antibiotic use at the ED were conducted in developed countries with a low percentage of sepsis. This study aimed to find additional clinical predictors for appropriate antibiotic use in bacteremia patients presenting at the ED from a developing country, in which there is a higher proportion of patients with sepsis. We included adult patients who presented at the ED with clinical suspicion of infection and bacteremia. Patients allocated to the appropriate antibiotic group were those in whom the prescribed antibiotic was sensitive to the pathogen. Predictors and outcomes of appropriate antibiotic use were analyzed. A total of 3133 patients who met the study criteria presented at the ED during the study period. Of those, 271 patients were diagnosed with bacteremia, 48 of whom (17.71%) received inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions. Only pulse rate was an independent factor for appropriate antibiotic treatment, with an adjusted odds ratio of 1.019 (95% CI of 1.001, 1.036). In terms of clinical outcomes, the inappropriate antibiotic group had higher proportions of 28-day mortality (29.17% vs. 25.25%; p-value = 0.022) and longer hospitalization (14 vs. 9 days; p-value = 0.003). This study found that inappropriate antibiotics were prescribed in 17% of bacteremia patients presenting at the ED and that high pulse rate was an indicator for appropriate antibiotic prescription. Patients with inappropriate antibiotic administration had longer hospitalization and higher 28-day mortality than those who received appropriate antibiotic treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-67839072019-10-16 Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department Phungoen, Pariwat Kraisriwattana, Areerat Apiratwarakul, Korakot Wonglakorn, Lumyai Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak Antibiotics (Basel) Article Sepsis is a condition that requires appropriate antibiotic treatment at the emergency department (ED). Most previous studies conducted on inappropriate antibiotic use at the ED were conducted in developed countries with a low percentage of sepsis. This study aimed to find additional clinical predictors for appropriate antibiotic use in bacteremia patients presenting at the ED from a developing country, in which there is a higher proportion of patients with sepsis. We included adult patients who presented at the ED with clinical suspicion of infection and bacteremia. Patients allocated to the appropriate antibiotic group were those in whom the prescribed antibiotic was sensitive to the pathogen. Predictors and outcomes of appropriate antibiotic use were analyzed. A total of 3133 patients who met the study criteria presented at the ED during the study period. Of those, 271 patients were diagnosed with bacteremia, 48 of whom (17.71%) received inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions. Only pulse rate was an independent factor for appropriate antibiotic treatment, with an adjusted odds ratio of 1.019 (95% CI of 1.001, 1.036). In terms of clinical outcomes, the inappropriate antibiotic group had higher proportions of 28-day mortality (29.17% vs. 25.25%; p-value = 0.022) and longer hospitalization (14 vs. 9 days; p-value = 0.003). This study found that inappropriate antibiotics were prescribed in 17% of bacteremia patients presenting at the ED and that high pulse rate was an indicator for appropriate antibiotic prescription. Patients with inappropriate antibiotic administration had longer hospitalization and higher 28-day mortality than those who received appropriate antibiotic treatment. MDPI 2019-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6783907/ /pubmed/31505779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030142 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Phungoen, Pariwat Kraisriwattana, Areerat Apiratwarakul, Korakot Wonglakorn, Lumyai Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title | Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title_full | Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title_fullStr | Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title_short | Predictors of Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Bacteremia Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department |
title_sort | predictors of appropriate antibiotic use in bacteremia patients presenting at the emergency department |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31505779 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030142 |
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