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The Utility of Bedside Assessment Tools and Associated Factors to Avoid Antibiotic Overuse in an Urban PICU of a Diarrheal Disease Hospital in Bangladesh

Background: Antibiotic exposure in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is very high, although 50% of all antibiotics may be unnecessary. We aimed to determine the utility of simple bedside screening tools and predicting factors to avoid antibiotic overuse in the ICU among children with diarrhea...

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Autores principales: Afroze, Farzana, Faruk, Md. Tanveer, Kamal, Mehnaz, Kabir, Farhad, Sarmin, Monira, Sharifuzzaman, Chakraborty, Mithun, Hossain, Md. Rezaul, Shikha, Shamima Sharmin, Chowdhury, Visnu Pritom, Islam, Md. Zahidul, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Chisti, Mohammod Jobayer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8532929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34680835
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10101255