Appropriate international measures for outpatient antibiotic prescribing and consumption: recommendations from a national data comparison of different measures | Zendy

Samuel Coenen | Zendy; B. Gielen | Zendy; Adriaan Blommaert | Zendy; Philippe Beutels | Zendy; Niel Hens | Zendy; Herman Goossens | Zendy

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Appropriate international measures for outpatient antibiotic prescribing and consumption: recommendations from a national data comparison of different measures

Author(s) -

Samuel Coenen,

B. Gielen,

Adriaan Blommaert,

Philippe Beutels,

Niel Hens,

Herman Goossens

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkt385

Subject(s) - medicine , defined daily dose , consumption (sociology) , environmental health , emergency medicine , drug , pharmacology , social science , sociology

Many European countries have engaged in awareness campaigns to decrease outpatient antibiotic use and several measures have been proposed, e.g. the number of defined daily doses (DDDs) or packages per 1000 inhabitants per day, producing conflicting findings. Therefore, we set out to explore what measure is most appropriate.

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