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2894. Metrics of Antimicrobial Use Within Inpatient Settings: Impacts of Statistical Methods and Case-Mix Adjustments

BACKGROUND: The necessary data elements and optimal statistical methods for benchmarking hospital-level antimicrobial use are still being debated. We aimed to describe the relative influence of case-mix adjustment and different statistical methods when ranking hospitals on antimicrobial use (AU) wit...

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Autores principales: Goto, Michihiko, Nair, Rajeshwari, Alexander, Bruce, Beck, Brice, Richards, Christopher, Perencevich, Eli N, Livorsi, Daniel J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809196/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz359.172