Reduction of unnecessary antibiotic days in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit

• Principais autores: Dipen P. Vyas (Autor), Vilmaris Quinones-Cardona (Autor), Margaret A. Gilfillan (Autor), Megan E. Young (Autor), Kimberly A. Pough (Autor), Alison J. Carey (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
• Acesso em linha: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Objective: Antibiotics are widely prescribed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and duration of prescription is varied. We sought to decrease unnecessary antibiotic days for the most common indications in our outborn level IV NICU by 20% within 1 year. Design and interventions: A re...