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Adoption of the World Health Organization access, watch reserve index to evaluate and monitor the use of antibiotics at a tertiary care hospital in India.
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- Antibiotic Use in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Study in Indonesia.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Health-system drivers of outpatient antibiotic use: evidence from prescribing, centralized supply, and catchment populations in public tertiary hospitals in Bihar, India.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Compliance with global action plan on antibiotic prescription and utilization: a multi-facility cross-sectional study in southern Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Increasing the use of the WHO AWaRe system in antibiotic surveillance and stewardship programmes in low- and middle-income countries.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- Ground level utility of Access, Watch, Reserve classification: Insights from a tertiary care center in North India.World journal of experimental medicine · 2023Article
- Prescribing Pattern and Associated Factors in Community Pharmacies: A Cross-Sectional Study Using AWaRe Classification and WHO Antibiotic Prescribing Indicators in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.Drugs - real world outcomes · 2023Article
- WHO AWaRe classification for antibiotic stewardship: tackling antimicrobial resistance - a descriptive study from an English NHS Foundation Trust prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Pattern of Antibiotic Dispensing at Pharmacies According to the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) Classification in Bangladesh.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Assessment of use of World Health Organization access, watch, reserve antibiotics and core prescribing indicators in pediatric outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Eastern India.Perspectives in clinical researchArticle
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Abstract
Background: The World Health Organization classification of antibiotics classifies key antibiotics into access, watch, and reserve (AWaRe) categories. Categorization provides a novel metrics called "AWaRe index" to study and monitor antibiotic consumption globally and within the same setting over time. Aim: The aim of this study is to compare the use of antibiotics in 2 years using the AWaRe index tool. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in SMS Hospital, Jaipur to collect data regarding total antibiotics consumed between January 2017 and December 2018 from drug distribution centers in hospital premises using the AWaRe classification. Data were then compared on yearly basis. Results: In 2017, 53.31% of antibiotics consumed belonged to access, 40.09% to watch, and 3.40% to reserve category, respectively, as compared to 41.21%, 46.94%, and 8.15%, respectively, in 2018. Conclusion: Increased use of watch (17%) and reserve antibiotics (140%) over 1 year with the same infection scenario in a similar setting indicates resistance in evolution.
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