Hospital antibiogram: A necessity

Medication reconciliation: a necessity in promoting a safe hospital discharge.

Medication errors are among the most common type of patient-safety error and therefore are a priority for organizational performance-improvement efforts. Medication reconciliation has been found to greatly reduce adverse drug and medication events. At one facility, a computer-generated Physician Discharge Medication Worksheet (PDMW) was developed to aid medication reconciliation. Use of this to...

Comparison of an Emergency Department-Specific Antibiogram to Hospital Antibiogram: Influence of Patient Risk Factors on Susceptibility

Prevalence and Antibiogram of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolated from Clinical Samples at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important pathogen isolated from various clinical samples. It continues to cause complication in nosocomial infections. Objective: To determine the prevalence and antibiotics resistance pattern of P.aeruginosa isolated from a clinical samples at a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study. A total of hundred clinical samples c...

Isolates and their Antibiogram from Blood Stream Infection in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Uttarakannada, India

Blood stream infection is the most common health care associated infection and an important cause of mortality and morbidity around the globe (Diekma et al., 2003). The illness associated with the infection may range from mild self limiting to life threatening sepsis requiring rapid and aggressive antimicrobial treatment (Young et al., 1995). Blood stream infection may be transient bacteraemia ...

Characterization and antibiogram of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli from a tertiary care hospital in Eastern India

Escherichia coli is one of the commonest bacteria causing urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially in women[1]. Urinary tract infections have an enormous disease burden, causing about 150 million cases per annum worldwide[2]. These E. coli strains causing UTI are often multi drug resistant, i.e. refractory to 3 or more different classes of antibiotic agents[3]. Proper susceptibility data fro...