ArticleAnnals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials2019
Antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP): an effective implementing technique for the therapy efficiency of meropenem and vancomycin antibiotics in Iranian pediatric patients.
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- The Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2022Pooled it
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- Impact of an antimicrobial time-out program on antimicrobial consumption rate in hospitalized patients: a quasi-experimental study on the national antimicrobial stewardship program in Iran : Iranian antimicrobial stewardship program.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2025Article
- State of the Art of Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Stewardship in Pediatric Setting.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship program on mortality and consumption of antibiotics in the intensive care units of a pediatric referral hospital in Peru.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- Ongoing Strategies to Improve Antimicrobial Utilization in Hospitals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Findings and Implications.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Demographic, clinical, and laboratory factors associated with renal parenchymal injury in Iranian children with acute pyelonephritis.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Clinical manifestations, laboratory markers, and renal ultrasonographic examinations in 1-month to 12-year-old Iranian children with pyelonephritis: a six-year cross-sectional retrospective study.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Therapeutic and Nutritional Effects of Synbiotic Yogurts in Children and Adults: a Clinical Review.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2020Review
- Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program in the antimicrobial-resistant and prevalence of clostridioides difficile infection and amount of antimicrobial consumed in cancer patients.BMC research notes · 2020Article
- Economic Burden Of Inappropriate Empiric Antibiotic Therapy: A Report From Southern Iran.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAntimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) is a distinguished method to improve the prescription and efficacy of antibiotics.
aimThe efficacy of ASP and conventional methods was compared to measure the effectiveness of meropenem (MPM) and vancomycin (VMN) antibiotics in pediatric patients.
designIn an interventional quasi-experimental study, 135 children admitted in Children's Hospital affiliated to University of Medical Sciences in time periods of 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 were assessed.
methodsThe conventional and ASP methods in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 were respectively utilized to provide the best antimicrobial therapy of MPM and VMN antibiotics in patient children. The data of mortality rate (MR), antibiotic prescription (AP), antibiotic dose (ADe), antibiotic duration (ADn), length of hospital stay (LOHS), and blood cultures (BCs) were compared across the years using the Chi square, independent t test, and Fisher's exact test.
resultsThe levels of MR, AP, ADe, ADn, LOHS, and positive BCs using the ASP method in 2015-2016 were significantly lower those of in 2014-2015 using the conventional one (p < 0.05).
conclusionsThe ASP method versus conventional one with a better efficacy can be employed as an antibiotic administration guide for MPM and VMN in the therapy of patients in community-based hospitals.
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