Comparison of antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance between a community hospital and tertiary care hospital for evaluation of the antimicrobial stewardship program in Japan

Assessment of risk-adjusted antibiotic use (AU) is recommended to evaluate antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). We aimed to compare the amount and diversity of AU and antimicrobial susceptibility of nosocomial isolates between a 266-bed community hospital (CH) and a 963-bed tertiary care hospi...

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Main Authors: Mika Morosawa, Takashi Ueda, Kazuhiko Nakajima, Tomoko Inoue, Masanobu Toyama, Hitoshi Ogasiwa, Miki Doi, Yasuhiro Nozaki, Yasushi Murakami, Makoto Ishii, Yoshio Takesue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10124824/?tool=EBI