Measuring Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing in Acute Hospitals: Development of a National Audit Tool Through a Delphi Consensus

• Main Authors: Graeme Hood (Author), Kieran S. Hand (Author), Emma Cramp (Author), Philip Howard (Author), Susan Hopkins (Author), Diane Ashiru-Oredope (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study developed a patient-level audit tool to assess the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in acute National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in the UK. A modified Delphi process was used to evaluate variables identified from published literature that could be used to support an assessmen...