Assessment of Antimicrobial Consumption in Multi-Field Hospitals with Pediatric Inpatients: Conventional vs. Novel Pediatric-Adjusted Methodologies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

the objective of this study was to propose a methodology for the assessment of antimicrobial consumption (AMC) in pediatric inpatients and to estimate variances in consumption levels in multi-field hospitals with pediatric inpatients, calculated by means of the pediatric-adjusted methodology vs. the conventional methodology.

Methods

the pediatric-adjusted methodology based on the conventional ATC/DDD method and children's DDDs (cDDD) for antimicrobials were proposed and validated in a series of probabilistic sensitivity analyses of real clinical data extracted from the receipt notes of three multi-field hospitals. Differences in AMC in multi-field hospitals with pediatric inpatients, calculated by means of the proposed methodology vs. the conventional methodology,

SUBMITTER: Rachina S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10376229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature