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Rationalizing irrational prescribing-infection-related attitudes and practices across paediatric surgery specialties in a hospital in South India.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Antibiotic use in paediatric surgical specialties is understudied. We investigated the antibiotic prescribing practices of paediatric general and cardiovascular surgical teams in a tertiary hospital in South India.

Methods

Mixed-methods study including observations from ward rounds, semi-structured interviews, and review of antibiotic prescribing. Field notes from observations and interview transcripts were coded using NVivo and thematically analysed. Data collection and analysis were iterative and continued until thematic saturation. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics.