Appropriate antibiotic use reduces length of hospital stay
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BACKGROUND To define appropriate antibiotic use for patients with a complicated urinary tract infection (UTI), we developed in a previous study a key set of 4 valid, guideline-based quality indicators (QIs). In the current study, we evaluated the association between appropriate antibiotic use for patients with a complicated UTI, as defined by these QIs, and length of hospital stay (LOS). METH...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw469