Patterns of community antibiotic use with reference to the AWaRe classification of the World Health Organization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring consumption through quality indicators and providing feedback is an important activity within programmes for improving antibiotic prescription. This study aims to describe the use of antibiotics for systemic use in community setting in Italy and to compare prescription patterns among regions based on quality prescription indicators to identify any inter-regional variability.

Methods

The 2021 consumption (calculated as DDDs per 1000 inhabitants per day) of antibiotics for systemic use (reimbursed or purchased privately) in community setting were considered. The WHO AWaRe system was used to classify antibiotics into Access, Watch and Reserve groups, using the 60% of prescribed antibiotics belonging to the Access group out of the total DDDs as AWaRe target

SUBMITTER: Gagliotti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11264137 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature