Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India
Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global problem concerned with patient safety. It is even more challenging in developing countries like India. Antibiotic stewardship initiative is the best arrow in the quiver to prevent and control this antimicrobial resistance. We observed 61% of the neonate...
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author | Konda, Kalyan Chakravarthy Singh, Himabindu Madireddy, Alimelu Poodari, Megha Mala Rao |
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description | Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global problem concerned with patient safety. It is even more challenging in developing countries like India. Antibiotic stewardship initiative is the best arrow in the quiver to prevent and control this antimicrobial resistance. We observed 61% of the neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of Niloufer hospital, Hyderabad, India were receiving improper antibiotics with respect to choice of drug or dosage or duration. Subsequently, an antibiotic stewardship team was formed to address the antibiotic misuse. Team consisted of neonatology faculty, residents, staff nurses, infection control nurses and microbiologist. We identified problems related to staff awareness, policy issues like lack of display of the antibiotic policy and lack of antibiotic lock, process issues like low rate of documentation of indication for initiation or escalation of antibiotic and a lack of dynamic review plan regarding continuation or de-escalation. We used the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to test and adapt solutions to these problems. Within 10 weeks of starting our quality improvement (QI) project, the proportion of unindicated antibiotic usage decreased from 61% to 27%. Timely de-escalation of antibiotic is a neglected intervention in neonates, and yielded the maximum result in our study. We conclude that QI projects are simple, doable yet powerful effective tools to address the burning problems like antibiotic misuse. This result was very satisfying and encouraging boosting our team’s faith in the effectiveness of QI approach. |
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spelling | pubmed-83361822021-08-20 Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India Konda, Kalyan Chakravarthy Singh, Himabindu Madireddy, Alimelu Poodari, Megha Mala Rao BMJ Open Qual Quality Improvement Report Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global problem concerned with patient safety. It is even more challenging in developing countries like India. Antibiotic stewardship initiative is the best arrow in the quiver to prevent and control this antimicrobial resistance. We observed 61% of the neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of Niloufer hospital, Hyderabad, India were receiving improper antibiotics with respect to choice of drug or dosage or duration. Subsequently, an antibiotic stewardship team was formed to address the antibiotic misuse. Team consisted of neonatology faculty, residents, staff nurses, infection control nurses and microbiologist. We identified problems related to staff awareness, policy issues like lack of display of the antibiotic policy and lack of antibiotic lock, process issues like low rate of documentation of indication for initiation or escalation of antibiotic and a lack of dynamic review plan regarding continuation or de-escalation. We used the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to test and adapt solutions to these problems. Within 10 weeks of starting our quality improvement (QI) project, the proportion of unindicated antibiotic usage decreased from 61% to 27%. Timely de-escalation of antibiotic is a neglected intervention in neonates, and yielded the maximum result in our study. We conclude that QI projects are simple, doable yet powerful effective tools to address the burning problems like antibiotic misuse. This result was very satisfying and encouraging boosting our team’s faith in the effectiveness of QI approach. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8336182/ /pubmed/34344742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001474 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Quality Improvement Report Konda, Kalyan Chakravarthy Singh, Himabindu Madireddy, Alimelu Poodari, Megha Mala Rao Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title | Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title_full | Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title_fullStr | Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title_short | Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India |
title_sort | quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in hyderabad, india |
topic | Quality Improvement Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34344742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001474 |
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