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Optimizing antibiotic treatment protocols requires balancing patient needs with antibiotic resistance. New criteria show resistance-focused protocols harm patient health, proposing a better balance for present and future care.

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  • Infectious Diseases
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Hospital antibiotic prescribing relies on treatment protocols to manage patient needs and antibiotic resistance.
  • Existing criteria for evaluating these protocols often conflict, leading to differing recommendations.
  • The evolution of antibiotic resistance and multi-resistant bacteria poses a significant long-term threat.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and compare existing criteria for assessing antibiotic treatment protocols.
  • To demonstrate the conflict between criteria prioritizing resistance evolution and patient health.
  • To introduce a novel optimization criterion balancing present and future patient needs.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of existing optimization criteria for antibiotic stewardship.
  • Development and evaluation of a new optimization criterion using asymptotic methods.
  • Modeling antibiotic cycling strategies to identify optimal switching times.

Main Results:

  • Criteria focused solely on slowing resistance evolution are detrimental to both short-term and long-term patient health.
  • The newly proposed criterion offers a more balanced approach to optimizing antibiotic protocols.
  • Asymptotic methods provide novel insights into protocol evaluation compared to previous numerical methods.
  • An optimal antibiotic switching time was identified for cycling strategies across various modeling assumptions.

Conclusions:

  • Antibiotic stewardship protocols must carefully balance immediate patient care with the long-term threat of resistance.
  • A new optimization framework is proposed to better achieve this balance.
  • The findings suggest that resistance-focused strategies may inadvertently harm patients, necessitating a revised approach to antibiotic cycling and protocol design.