Open AccessRisk factors, incidence, and morbidity associated with antibiotic-associated diarrhea in intensive care unit patients receiving antibiotic monotherapy
Author(s) -
Hong Zhou,
Qi Xu,
Yu Liu,
Litao Guo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i10.1908
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , intensive care unit , odds ratio , antibiotic associated diarrhea , antibiotics , diarrhea , confidence interval , retrospective cohort study , clostridium difficile , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , biology
This study aimed to identify factors associated with antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) in patients in the department of intensive care medicine who received antibiotic monotherapy in order to reduce the incidence of AAD and improve rational use of antibiotics in these patients.