Applicability of Outpatient Quality Indicators for Appropriate Antibiotic Use in a Primary Health Care Area: a Point Prevalence Survey
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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: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0066-4804,1098-6596
DOI: 10.1128/aac.01266-20