Paediatric antimicrobial stewardship programmes in the UK's regional children's hospitals.
J Hosp Infect
; 105(4): 736-740, 2020 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
A survey was conducted in UK regional children's hospitals with paediatric intensive care and paediatric infectious disease (PID) departments to describe the characteristics of paediatric antimicrobial stewardship (PAS) programmes. A structured questionnaire was sent to PAS coordinators. 'Audit and feedback' was implemented in 13 out of 17 centres. Microbiology-led services were more likely to implement antimicrobial restriction (75% vs 33% in PID-led services), to focus on broad-spectrum antibiotics, and to review patients with positive blood cultures. PID-led services were more likely to identify patients from e-prescribing or drug charts and review all antimicrobials. A PAS network has been established.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pautas de la Práctica en Medicina
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Programas de Optimización del Uso de los Antimicrobianos
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Implementación de Plan de Salud
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Hospitales Pediátricos
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Antibacterianos
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Sysrev_observational_studies
Límite:
Child
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Hosp Infect
Año:
2020
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Article