ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Antibiotic Use in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates After an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.
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- A systematic review of Perinatal Antibiotic Stewardship - where we are, where to go?Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Pooled it
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- Restricting C-Reactive Protein Use in Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis Reduces Unnecessary Antibiotic Exposure.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Blood cultures and predicting positivity in extremely preterm infants admitted to an outborn level IV NICU.BMC pediatrics · 2025Observational
- Neonatology: First Exposure to Antibiotics from the Ethical Perspective of Parents, Physicians, and Regulators.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sustaining the Continued Effectiveness of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Preterm Infants.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopmental Outcome after Culture-Proven or So-Called Culture-Negative Sepsis in Preterm Infants.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Variation in antibiotic consumption in very preterm infants-a 10 year population-based study.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern and Empirical Antibiotic Treatments in Neonatal Sepsis: A Retrospective, Single-Center, 12-Year Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Late-Onset Sepsis Mortality among Preterm Infants: Beyond Time to First Antibiotics.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Neonatal septic shock, a focus on first line interventions.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Review
- Antibiotic Stewardship Quality Improvement Project for Neonatal Sepsis in a Tertiary NICU in Lima, Peru.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
- New strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use in the NICU: A Quality Improvement Initiative.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
There is insufficient data regarding antimicrobial stewardship (AS) and outcomes of very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates after AS programs. This observational, retrospective study addressed AS and outcomes of VLBW neonates admitted to an Italian level-three center. Two periods were compared: (i) baseline, before AS (January 2011-December 2012) and (ii) intervention, after AS (January 2016-December 2017). Between these two periods, procedures were put in place to inform medical and nursing staff regarding AS. There were 111 and 119 VLBW neonates in the baseline (6744 live births) and in the intervention period (5902 live births), respectively. The number of infants exposed to antibiotics (70%) during the hospital stay did not change, but the total days of therapy (DOT, median 12 vs. 5) and DOT/1000 patient days (302 vs. 215) decreased in the intervention period (
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