ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024
An Ocean between the Waves: Trends in Antimicrobial Consumption in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.
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- Antimicrobial Consumption and Prescribing Patterns in Hospitalized Children During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A Retrospective Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Utilization and Quality of Antibiotic Use in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Low-Resource Settings.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Kinetic Patterns of Antibiotic Consumption in German Acute Care Hospitals from 2017 to 2023.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inpatient Antibiotic and Antifungal Drug Prescribing Volumes in Germany.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
We assessed the antibiotic use in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients during four different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its trends over the period and associated risk factors. We performed a cross-sectional retrospective analysis nested in a prospectively collected cohort of hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19 at a university hospital in Spain. A total of 2415 patients were included in this study, among whom 1120 corresponded to the first wave. The highest percentage of patients receiving some sort of antibiotic treatment was higher during the first wave (77.6%) than during the others; nevertheless, our calculation of the average DOT (days of antibiotic treatment) per 100 patient days of stay found that the highest antibiotic prescription rate corresponded to the second pandemic wave (61.61 DOT/100 patient days), which was associated with a higher ICU admission rate and a lower SpO
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