Evaluating antibiotic stewardship in a tertiary care hospital in Kerala, India: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine what barriers and facilitators to antibiotic stewardship exist within a healthcare facility.

Setting

1300-bed tertiary care private hospital located in the state of Kerala, India.

Participants

31 semistructured interviews and 4 focus groups with hospital staff ranging from physicians, nurses, pharmacists and a clinical microbiologist.

Results

Key facilitators of antibiotic stewardship (AS) at the hospital included a dedicated committee overseeing appropriate inpatient antibiotic use, a prompt microbiology laboratory, a high level of AS understanding among staff, established guidelines for empiric prescribing and an easily accessible antibiogram. We identified the following barriers: limited access to clinical pharmacists, physician immun

SUBMITTER: Baubie K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530383 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature