Trends in Antimicrobial Consumption in Tertiary Care Hospitals in Costa Rica from 2017 to 2021: A Comparative Analysis of Defined Daily Doses per 100 Bed Days and per 100 Discharges

• Main Authors: Cristina Fernández-Barrantes (Author), Allan Ramos-Esquivel (Author), Luis Esteban Hernández-Soto (Author), Manuel Ramírez-Cardoce (Author), Luis David Garro-Zamora (Author), Jose Castro Cordero (Author), Santiago Grau (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<b>Background</b>: Antimicrobial consumption (AMC) data in Latin America are scarce and usually spread out across different sources used to make AMC calculations, making it difficult to both standardize and compare regions through similar time frames. The main objective was to analyze AM...