医生的抗菌素处方和一般医疗病房患者的结果:一个多中心的回顾性队列研究

Mark T McIntyre1, Sudipta Saha2, Andrew M Morris2

  • 1Sinai Health (McIntyre, Fralick), Toronto, Ont.; Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (McIntyre), University of Toronto; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Saha, Verma, Razak), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Saha), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.; Department of Medicine (Morris, Lapointe-Shaw, Weinerman, Fralick, Verma, Razak), University of Toronto; Department of Medicine (Morris), Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network; Department of Medicine (Lapointe-Shaw), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Trillium Health Partners (Tang), Mississauga, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Weinerman), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Division of General Internal Medicine (Agarwal); Department of Medicine (Agarwal), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. mark.mcintyre@sinaihealth.ca.

概括

医生处方的抗微生物剂的数量和频谱有显著的变化,但与患者的特征或结果没有相关性. 针对最低处方四分位数可能会加强抗微生物药物管理工作.

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