Association of a blood culture utilization intervention on antibiotic use in a pediatric intensive care unit
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Antibiotic use in the intensive care unit.
On a background of a number of antibiotics in hand and no governing laws for their rational use, we have attempted to get a snapshot of the current trends of use of antibiotics in critically ill patients with infection as a primary cause, in our hospital. This was a prospective observational study carried over a period of 1 year. Critical cases arising from Infection as a primary cause were sel...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2019.10