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Assessment of Quality Indicators for Appropriate Antibiotic Use

Author(s) -

Paula Arcenillas,

Lucía Boix-Palop,

Lucía Gómez,

Mariona Xercavins,

P March,

Laura Martínez,

Montserrat Riera,

Rosa Madridejos,

Cristina Badía,

Jordi Nicolás Picó,

Esther Calbo

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07

H-Index - 259

eISSN - 1070-6283

pISSN - 0066-4804

DOI - 10.1128/aac.00875-18

Subject(s) - antimicrobial stewardship , quality (philosophy) , medical prescription , antibiotic stewardship , antibiotics , intensive care medicine , stewardship (theology) , measure (data warehouse) , medicine , quality management , risk analysis (engineering) , business , computer science , data mining , antibiotic resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , pharmacology , biology , service (business) , philosophy , epistemology , marketing , politics , political science , law

One of the critical elements of antimicrobial stewardship programs is the ability to measure the quality of antibiotic prescriptions. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the performance properties of a set of previously developed quality indicators (QIs) and to identify the potential room for improvement in antibiotic use in our setting.

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