A multicentre point prevalence survey (PPS) of antimicrobial use amongst admitted patients in tertiary care centres in India.
Aditi M PanditraoNusrat ShafiqSuparna ChatterjeeAshish PathakNiyati TrivediBalakrishnan SadasivamNilima KshirsagarRajni KaulManisha BiswalAshish KakkarSamir MalhotraPankaj AroraShweta TalatiNavneet DhaliwalAvijit HazraRatinder JhajAhmad NajmiNavin PandeyRaja ChakravertySaman PathanJanki ChauhanAditya Mathurnull nullPublished in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2021)
The survey demonstrated a high use of antimicrobials in admitted patients with a considerable proportion of drugs from the 'Watch' category. The targets for interventions that emerged from the survey were: improving surgical prophylaxis, decreasing double anaerobic cover, initiating culture of sending cultures and de-escalation with targeted therapy.
Keyphrases
- cross sectional
- tertiary care
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- microbial community
- staphylococcus aureus
- clinical trial
- risk factors
- wastewater treatment
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- physical activity
- randomized controlled trial
- open label
- risk assessment
- patient reported outcomes
- heavy metals