Using a period incidence survey to compare antibiotic use in children between a university hospital and a district hospital in a country with low antimicrobial resistance: a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe and compare antibiotic use in relation to indications, doses, adherence rate to guidelines and rates of broad-spectrum antibiotics (BSA) in two different paediatric departments with different academic cultures, and identify areas with room for improvement.

Design

Prospective observational survey of antibiotic use.

Setting

Paediatric departments in a university hospital (UH) and a district hospital (DH) in Norway, 2017. The registration period was 1 year at the DH and 4 months at the UH.

Participants

201 children at the DH (mean age 3.8: SD 5.1) and 137 children at the UH (mean age 2.0: SD 5.9) were treated with systemic antibiotics by a paediatrician in the study period and included in the study.

Outcome measures

Main outcome varia

SUBMITTER: Thaulow CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature