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1807. Tracking antibiotic de-escalation using a novel metric, days of antibiotic spectrum coverage (DASC)

BACKGROUND: In the United States, days of therapy (DOT) is the currently preferred method for measuring antibiotic consumption. A major disadvantage of DOT is that it does not account for the antimicrobial’s spectrum. Antibiotic de-escalation is therefore not well-captured by DOT. To overcome the li...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Heintz, Brett, Livorsi, Daniel J, Perencevich, Eli N, Goto, Michihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9752754/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac492.1437