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Published on: September 9, 2015
Vancomycin use in a large teaching hospital in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2003
M Askarian1, O Assadian, GhR Safaee
1Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. askariam@sums.ac.ir
Abstract:
We investigated adherence to the Hospital Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines on vancomycin prescription in a large university-affiliated hospital in Shiraz. From August to December 2003, 200 hospitalized patients received vancomycin. For only 12 (6%) of these patients was vancomycin prescribed appropriately according to HICPAC guidelines. The main reasons why vancomycin use did not comply with HICPAC recommendations were: surgical prophylaxis in patients with negative cultures for resistant Gram-positive organisms, no investigation of vancomycin serum levels in patients receiving > 48 hours of vancomycin, vancomycin serum levels not repeated in patients receiving > 1 week of vancomycin, no appropriate adjustment of dosage with respect to serum levels in patients receiving vancomycin.
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