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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Missed Opportunities for Antifungal Stewardship during the COVID-19 Era.

Brandon K Hawkins, Samantha D Walker, Mahmoud A Shorman

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 48% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brandon K HawkinsCollege of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7735-1130
Samantha D WalkerDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1856-3357
Mahmoud A ShormanDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA.
University of Tennessee Medical Center · USUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant increases in antibacterial use were observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, subsequent analyses found this increase in antibiotic use to be excessive in comparison with the relatively low rates of bacterial coinfection. Although patients who are critically ill with COVID-19 may be at an increased risk for pulmonary aspergillosis, antifungal use in these populations remained underreported, particularly in later phases of the pandemic. This single-center, population-level cohort analysis compares the monthly use rates of mold-active antifungal drugs in the medical intensive care unit during April 2019-March 2020 (baseline) with those during April 2020-November 2022. The antifungal drugs included in the analysis were liposomal amphotericin B, anidulafungin, isavuconazonium, posaconazole, and voriconazole. We found that during 2020-2022, the usage of antifungal drugs was not significantly different from baseline for all included agents except isavuconazonium, which was used significantly more (

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antifungal stewardshipantimicrobial stewardshipaspergillosisCOVID-19fungal infectionsICUintensive care unitisavuconazonium

Identifiers

PMID37760649
PMCPMC10526074
OpenAlexW4386099074

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