Antibiotic consumption in long-term care facilities in Poland and other European countries in 2017.
Jadwiga Wójkowska-MachMichał BrudłoMariusz TopolskiTomasz BochenekEstera JachowiczMałgorzata SiewierskaAnna RóżańskaPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2021)
A significant problem observed in LTCFs was the empirical use of antibiotics and the scarcity of microbiological testing. In the studied Polish LTCFs, where the age of residents was low, also the AMC was found to be lower.
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