Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level

We evaluated the appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions at discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India. Of the 790 adult patients included, 84.4% received antibiotics. Microbiological specimens were taken from 67.3% of these patients, and pathogens were identified in 28.8% of cases. Overus...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Stuti, Gunjiyal, Jacinta, Varma, Sharin, Malhotra, Rajesh, Shrivastav, Sharad, Parveen, Rasna, Mathur, Purva
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.308
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author Gupta, Stuti
Gunjiyal, Jacinta
Varma, Sharin
Malhotra, Rajesh
Shrivastav, Sharad
Parveen, Rasna
Mathur, Purva
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description We evaluated the appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions at discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India. Of the 790 adult patients included, 84.4% received antibiotics. Microbiological specimens were taken from 67.3% of these patients, and pathogens were identified in 28.8% of cases. Overuse of antimicrobials at hospital discharge should be curtailed.
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spelling pubmed-98799282023-01-28 Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level Gupta, Stuti Gunjiyal, Jacinta Varma, Sharin Malhotra, Rajesh Shrivastav, Sharad Parveen, Rasna Mathur, Purva Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication We evaluated the appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions at discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India. Of the 790 adult patients included, 84.4% received antibiotics. Microbiological specimens were taken from 67.3% of these patients, and pathogens were identified in 28.8% of cases. Overuse of antimicrobials at hospital discharge should be curtailed. Cambridge University Press 2022-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9879928/ /pubmed/36712474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.308 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Varma, Sharin
Malhotra, Rajesh
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Parveen, Rasna
Mathur, Purva
Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title_full Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title_fullStr Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title_full_unstemmed Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title_short Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level
title_sort antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in india: a potential target for reducing use at the community level
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.308
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