Impact and Value of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship: Retrospective Pre-COVID-19-Pandemic Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

"Antimicrobial stewardship" (AMS) is defined as a healthcare-system-wide approach to promoting and monitoring the judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness. Therefore, we structured an observational study to monitor the hospital trend of antibiotic consumption and related expenditure before the COVID-19 pandemic and to evaluate how much AMS could affect this trend.

Methods

The research covered the antibiotic prescriptions at the University Hospital (U.H.) "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona", Salerno, Italy, comparing data on the therapies prescribed from 1 January to 31 December 2017 (27,384 patients) with those collected during the same period in 2019 (27,047 patients).

Results

Unlike national data, our results highlighted a decre

SUBMITTER: Costantino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9369048 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature