The use of continuous electronic prescribing data to infer trends in antimicrobial consumption and estimate the impact of stewardship interventions in hospitalized children.

Samuel William Channon-WellsM KwokJ BoothA BamfordP KonstantyJ HatcherG DixonP J DiggleJoseph F Standing Adam David Irwin

Published in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2021)

Electronic prescribing systems offer significant opportunities to better understand and report antimicrobial consumption in children. This approach to modelling administration data overcomes the limitations of using interval data and dispensary data. It provides substantially more detailed inferences on prescribing patterns and the potential impact of stewardship interventions.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
primary care
big data
young adults
staphylococcus aureus
physical activity
machine learning
climate change
acute care