Background Antibiotics are the most common medicines prescribed to children in hospitals
and the community, with a high proportion of potentially inappropriate use. Antibiotic misuse …

Background Quantifying antibiotic use is an essential element of antibiotic stewardship since
it allows comparison between different settings and time windows, and measurement of the …

Importance Antimicrobial stewardship programs have been effective for inpatients, often
through prescribing audit and feedback. However, most antimicrobial use occurs in …

Importance Inappropriate antimicrobial drug use is associated with adverse events in
hospitalized patients and contributes to the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Treatment of suspected infection is a mainstay of the
daily work in the NICU. We hypothesized that NICU antibiotic prescribing practice variation …

Importance Blood culture overuse in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can lead to
unnecessary antibiotic use and contribute to antibiotic resistance. Optimizing blood culture …

Background: The neonatal and pediatric antimicrobial point prevalence survey (PPS) of the
Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children project (http://www …

Background Antibiotics are among the drugs most commonly prescribed to children in
hospitals and communities. Unfortunately, a great number of these prescriptions are …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Single-center evaluations of pediatric antimicrobial
stewardship programs (ASPs) suggest that ASPs are effective in reducing and improving …

Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed medications in neonatal intensive care units
(NICUs). 1 There is increasing evidence that inappropriate or excessive use of antibiotics in …