Evaluation of clinicians’ knowledge and use of minimum inhibitory concentration values

Routinely reporting minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values to clinicians remains controversial. We surveyed clinicians to assess their knowledge and usage of MIC in clinical scenarios. The majority of respondents used MIC values to select antibiotic therapy, with a tendency to use those antib...

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Autores principales: Witt, Lucy S, Spicer, Jennifer O, Burd, Eileen, Kraft, Colleen S, Babiker, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9067004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34843708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101656
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spelling pubmed-90670042022-08-23 Evaluation of clinicians’ knowledge and use of minimum inhibitory concentration values Witt, Lucy S Spicer, Jennifer O Burd, Eileen Kraft, Colleen S Babiker, Ahmed Braz J Infect Dis Brief Communication Routinely reporting minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values to clinicians remains controversial. We surveyed clinicians to assess their knowledge and usage of MIC in clinical scenarios. The majority of respondents used MIC values to select antibiotic therapy, with a tendency to use those antibiotics with lower MICs, regardless of clinical appropriateness. Elsevier 2021-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9067004/ /pubmed/34843708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101656 Text en © 2021 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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