Antibiotic Consumption and Deviation of Prescribed Daily Dose From the Defined Daily Dose in Critical Care Patients: A Point-Prevalence Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Background: The consumption of antibiotics is one of the metrics used to evaluate the impact of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of antibiotic consumption in Brazilian intensive care units ...
Patricia Helena Castro Nunes +11 more
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Defined daily dose definition in medication adherence assessment in asthma [PDF]
European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2023 Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) has been described as poor. In adherence studies, if the actual prescribed dosing is not available, generic defined daily doses (DDD) are applied instead when assessing adherence.
Päivi Saukkosalmi +4 more
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Development of Antimicrobial Defined Daily Dose (DDD) for the Pediatric Population [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2023 Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) optimize antimicrobial use, improve patient outcomes, and reduce resistance. To assess the effectiveness of ASPs, it is necessary to have indicators that can be widely used.
Elena Montecatine-Alonso +9 more
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Contrasting Treatment- and Farm-Level Metrics of Antimicrobial Use Based on Used Daily Dose vs. Defined Daily Dose for the German Antibiotics Minimization Concept [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 The German Antibiotics Minimization Concept defines a farm-level benchmarking process based on half-yearly treatment frequencies that applies to six animal populations for fattening: calves (≤ 8 months), cattle (> 8 months), piglets (≤ 30 kg), pigs ...
Matthias Flor +3 more
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Used Daily Dose vs. Defined Daily Dose—Contrasting Two Different Methods to Measure Antibiotic Consumption at the Farm Level [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Tackling the problem of rising antibiotic resistance requires valid and comparable data on the use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock. To date, no harmonized monitoring of antimicrobial usage in animals is available, and there is no system to assess ...
Svetlana Kasabova +5 more
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Antimicrobial Defined Daily Dose in Neonatal Population: Validation in the Clinical Practice [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2023 Background: Currently, there is no validated method for estimating antimicrobial consumption in the neonatal population, as it exists for adults using Defined Daily Doses (DDD).
Cristina Villanueva-Bueno +17 more
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Profile of antimicrobial use and potential use of the defined daily dose in neonatology [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOne of the measures for monitoring microbial resistance is the calculation of the defined daily dose of antimicrobial agents. For this calculation, the weight of an adult of 70 kg is used as a standard, so that application in neonatology is not possible.
Cinara Rejane Viana Oliveira +3 more
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1766. Application of Defined Daily Dose to Antibiotic Prescribing in Massachusetts Jails [PDF]
Open Forum Infect Dis, 2022 Abstract Background Minoritized populations experience increased risk of antimicrobial resistant infections in the community and are subjected to further risk of infections because of mass incarceration.
Szewczyk, Bart +5 more
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RGUHS Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesObjective The objective of the study was to perform the drug utilization evaluation of analgesics in the Department of General Surgery at a teaching hospital by using Anatomical and Therapeutic classification ATC code and Defined ...
Geetha Jayaprakash +2 more
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Consumption of antibacterials in three hospitals in Santiago de Cuba in the period 2019-2020 [PDF]
Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2022 Context: Infections by multiresistant bacteria increase the risk of therapeutic failure, increasing hospital stay, costs and mortality. This determines the use of more expensive antibacterials with a broader spectrum, which leads to a high consumption at
Maraelys Morales-González +7 more
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