Implementation and impact of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs: a systematic sco** review

D Donà, E Barbieri, M Daverio, R Lundin… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2020‏ - Springer
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 …

Metrics for quantifying antibiotic use in the hospital setting: results from a systematic review and international multidisciplinary consensus procedure

M Stanić Benić, R Milanič, AA Monnier… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
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 …

Use of the WHO Access, Watch, and Reserve classification to define patterns of hospital antibiotic use (AWaRe): an analysis of paediatric survey data from 56 …

Y Hsia, BR Lee, A Versporten, Y Yang… - The Lancet Global …, 2019‏ - thelancet.com
Background Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO's global
action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access …

Consumption of oral antibiotic formulations for young children according to the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) antibiotic groups: an analysis of sales data …

Y Hsia, M Sharland, C Jackson, ICK Wong… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019‏ - thelancet.com
Summary Background The 2017 WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children
(EMLc) groups antibiotics as Access, Watch, or Reserve, based on recommendations of their …

The antibiotic resistance and prescribing in European Children project: a neonatal and pediatric antimicrobial web-based point prevalence survey in 73 hospitals …

A Versporten, M Sharland, J Bielicki… - The Pediatric …, 2013‏ - journals.lww.com
Background: The neonatal and pediatric antimicrobial point prevalence survey (PPS) of the
Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children project (http://www …

Antimicrobial stewardship in paediatrics

N Principi, S Esposito - BMC infectious diseases, 2016‏ - Springer
Background Antibiotics are among the drugs most commonly prescribed to children in
hospitals and communities. Unfortunately, a great number of these prescriptions are …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of antibiotic consumption in acute care hospitals

R Bitterman, K Hussein, L Leibovici, Y Carmeli… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Antibiotic consumption is an easily quantifiable performance measure in hospitals and might
be used for monitoring. We conducted a review of published studies and online surveillance …

Using a simple point-prevalence survey to define appropriate antibiotic prescribing in hospitalised children across the UK

M Gharbi, K Doerholt, S Vergnano, JA Bielicki… - BMJ open, 2016‏ - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background The National Health Service England, Commissioning for Quality and
Innovation for Antimicrobial Resistance (CQUIN AMR) aims to reduce the total antibiotic …

Therapeutic guidelines for prescribing antibiotics in neonates should be evidence-based: a French national survey

S Leroux, W Zhao, P Bétrémieux, P Pladys… - Archives of disease in …, 2015‏ - adc.bmj.com
Objective This survey aims to describe and analyse the dosage regimens of antibiotics in
French neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Methods Senior doctors from 56 French …

Using prescription patterns in primary care to derive new quality indicators for childhood community antibiotic prescribing

S De Bie, F Kaguelidou, KMC Verhamme… - The Pediatric …, 2016‏ - journals.lww.com
Background: To describe patterns of antibiotic outpatient use in 3 European countries,
including 2 new pediatric-specific quality indicators (QIs). Methods: A cohort study was …