Applicability of generic quality indicators for appropriate antibiotic use in daily hospital practice: a cross-sectional point-prevalence multicenter study
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Quality indicators to measure appropriate antibiotic use in hospitalized adults.
BACKGROUND An important requirement for an effective antibiotic stewardship program is the ability to measure appropriateness of antibiotic use. The aim of this study was to develop quality indicators (QIs) that can be used to measure appropriateness of antibiotic use in the treatment of all bacterial infections in hospitalized adult patients. METHODS A RAND-modified Delphi procedure was used...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.011