Quality Indicators to Measure Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Hospitalized Adults
Open Access
- 28 September 2014
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 60 (2), 281-291
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu747
Abstract
Background. An important requirement for an effective antibiotic stewardship program is the ability to measure appropriateness of antibiotic use. The aim of this study was to develop quality indicators (QIs) that can be used to measure appropriateness of antibiotic use in the treatment of all bacterial infections in hospitalized adult patients.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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