Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals
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Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals.
BACKGROUND To compare the quantitative antibiotic use between hospitals or hospital units and to explore differences, adjustment for severity of illness of hospitalized patients is essential. The case mix index (CMI) is an economic surrogate marker (i.e. the total cost weights of all inpatients per a defined time period divided by the number of admissions) to describe the average patients' morb...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn275