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Antibiotic use in Kenyan public hospitals: Prevalence, appropriateness and link to guideline availability

OBJECTIVE: To examine prescription patterns and explore to what extent guidelines are available and how they might influence treatment appropriateness among hospitalised patients in Kenyan hospitals. METHODS: Data on antimicrobial usage were collected from hospitalised patients across 14 Kenyan publ...

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Autores principales: Maina, Michuki, Mwaniki, Paul, Odira, Edwin, Kiko, Nduku, McKnight, Jacob, Schultsz, Constance, English, Mike, Tosas-Auguet, Olga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32781162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.084