Appropriateness of the Empirical Antibiotics Prescribed and Their Concordance with National Guidelines for Three Selected Infections among Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Care Centre in Sri Lanka.
Gayashan ChathurangaThushari DissanayakeNeluka FernandoChandanie WanigatungePublished in: International journal of microbiology (2021)
High resistance rates were observed against the prescribed empirical antibiotics. National empirical antibiotic guidelines should be revised with updated data on causative organisms and their susceptibility patterns to ensure appropriate empirical antibiotic prescription.