Antimicrobial prescription at the time of discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India: A potential target for reducing use at the community level.

Stuti Gupta, Jacinta Gunjiyal, Sharin Varma, Rajesh Malhotra, Sharad Shrivastav, Rasna Parveen, Purva Mathur

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Article in Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Stuti GuptaDepartment of Microbiology, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Jacinta GunjiyalJai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Sharin VarmaDepartment of Microbiology, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Rajesh MalhotraDepartment of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India.

Sharad ShrivastavDepartment of Microbiology, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3600-5853

Rasna ParveenDepartment of Microbiology, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Purva MathurDepartment of Microbiology, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4429-3688

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Abstract

We evaluated the appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions at discharge from a tertiary-care hospital in India. Of the 790 adult patients included, 84.4% received antibiotics. Microbiological specimens were taken from 67.3% of these patients, and pathogens were identified in 28.8% of cases. Overuse of antimicrobials at hospital discharge should be curtailed.

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PMID36712474

DOI10.1017/ash.2022.308

PMCPMC9879928

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