Quality of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis using E-prescrption conditioning

Quality of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis using E-prescrption conditioning

Methods Prophylactic antibiotic prescriptions for patients undergoing surgery in January 2011 were extracted from the medical records. Variables collected included: surgical procedure, prophylactic antibiotic prescribed (ATC code), surgery classification (clean, clean contaminated, contaminated and dirty), and prophylaxis duration. A descriptive statistical analysis and cross-tabulations (chisq...

Assessment of antibiotic prophylaxis in surgical patients at the Gaffrée e Guinle University Hospital.

OBJECTIVE : to evaluate the antibiotic prophylaxis in surgical patients at the Gaffrée e Guinle University Hospital - HUGG. METHODS : we conducted a rospective study of a cohort of 256 patients undergoing elective operations between January and September 2014. We collected data on demographics, use or not of prophylactic antibiotic and the antibiotic prophylaxis following characteristics: typ...

Timing of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis administration: Complexities of analysis

BACKGROUND The timing of prophylactic antibiotic administration is a patient safety outcome that is recurrently tracked and reported. The interpretation of these data has important implications for patient safety practices. However, diverse data collection methods and approaches to analysis impede knowledge building in this field. This paper makes explicit several challenges to quantifying the ...

The use of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in seven Malaysian hospitals.

A survey on the use of antibiotics in surgical prophylaxis was carried out in seven Malaysian hospitals. Details of antibiotic prescriptions were obtained through questionnaires completed by the prescriber. A total of 430 such prescriptions was analysed. A large number of different antibiotic regimens were used for a variety of surgical procedures. The majority of prescriptions (70%) were issue...

Antibiotic prophylaxis in the surgical management of facial trauma.