Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
Division of Infectious Diseases and The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Oct;40(10):1181-1183. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.221. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
Antimicrobial stewardship programs typically use days of therapy to assess antimicrobial use. However, this metric does not account for the antimicrobial spectrum of activity. We applied an antibiotic spectrum index to a population of very-low-birth-weight infants to assess its utility to evaluate the impact of antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
抗菌药物管理计划通常使用治疗天数来评估抗菌药物的使用情况。然而,该指标并未考虑抗菌药物的作用谱。我们将抗生素谱指数应用于极低出生体重儿人群,以评估其用于评估抗菌药物管理干预措施影响的效用。