Point Prevalence Study of Antibiotic Consumption in Sanandaj Hospitals, 2015-2017; Urgent Implications for an Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Antibiotic Stewardship without an Antibiotic Stewardship Program?

To promote heightened vigilance concerning antibiotic agents in Canadian hospitals, Accreditation Canada has implemented antibiotic stewardship as a required organizational practice.1 Antibiotic stewardship is the process of ensuring that only necessary and appropriate antibiotic agents are used and that their use is appropriate for each individual patient. It involves optimizing all steps of a...

Antibiotic consumption and antibiotic stewardship in Swedish hospitals

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to describe and analyze the effect of antibiotic policy changes on antibiotic consumption in Swedish hospitals and to review antibiotic stewardship in Swedish hospitals. RESULTS The main findings were: 1) Antibiotic consumption has significantly increased in Swedish hospitals over the last decade. The consumption of cephalosporins has decreased, whereas th...

Antibiotic Consumption During a 4-year Period in a Community Hospital with an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.

OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate the trend of antibiotic consumption in patients admitted to a community hospital in Qatar with an antimicrobial stewardship program. METHODS This observational study was carried out in a 75-bed facility in Western Qatar over a 4-year period (2012-2015). The monitoring of antimicrobial consumption from inpatient wards was performed from the pharmacy records and...

Antibiotic Utilization and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

A modified method for measuring antibiotic use in healthcare settings: implications for antibiotic stewardship and benchmarking.

OBJECTIVES To determine whether adjusting the denominator of the common hospital antibiotic use measurement unit (defined daily doses/100 bed-days) by including age-adjusted comorbidity score (100 bed-days/age-adjusted comorbidity score) would result in more accurate and meaningful assessment of hospital antibiotic use. METHODS The association between the monthly sum of age-adjusted comorbidi...