Open AccessMeasuring trends of outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: jointly modelling longitudinal data in defined daily doses and packages
Author(s) -
Robin Bruyndonckx,
Niel Hens,
Marc Aerts,
Herman Goossens,
Geert Molenberghs,
Samuel Coenen
Publication year - 2014
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/dku063
Subject(s) - antibiotics , medicine , longitudinal data , computer science , data mining , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
To complement analyses of the linear trend and seasonal fluctuation of European outpatient antibiotic use expressed in defined daily doses (DDD) by analyses of data in packages, to assess the agreement between both measures and to study changes in the number of DDD per package over time.
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