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Research Article | Volume 13 Issue:1 (, 2023) | Pages 861 - 866
Antimicrobial Stewardship: An evidence based approach
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DOI : 10.5083/ejcm
Published
Feb. 28, 2023
Abstract

Background: Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs have shown to reduce the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and health-care-associated infections (HAIs), and save health-care costs associated with an inappropriate antimicrobial use. Methods: This is a prospective, descriptive and observational study conducted at Department of Microbiology, Ayaan institute of medical sciences over a period of 1 year included 410 patients. Patients of either sex of any age who have been admitted inward and on antibiotic therapy were included. Outdoor patients were excluded in our study. Conducted from various clinical Departments such as Medicine wards, Surgical wards, Paediatric wards and Orthopaedics wards. All data was be documented and reviewed periodically. Any deviations from the agreed criteria were communicated, discussed, and documented. Results: On the basis of gender, frequency of Male patients were recorded little bit higher (62.6%) than female (37.4%). So, the hospital attendance rate of this study was male predominant. Majority of subjects belonged to 21-40 years (32.1%) followed by 1-20 years (29.5%) of age range. When it is categorized according to ward, in Medicine ward was recorded 34.8%, and for Orthopaedics it was 20.0%, while 30.9% for surgery and 14.1% paediatrics wards. For this study, subjects were categorised in eighteen groups on the basis of their diagnosis. Out of which, majority of the population (20.50%) were found with diagnosis of carcinoma followed by orthopaedic diseases (19.90%), while least number of patients (0.9%) were diagnosed with ophthalmological as well as thyroid diseases. Beta lactam and Cephalosporin were found the most frequent used first antibiotic even after surgery. Even for the each wards, Beta lactam and Cephalosporin were recorded highly significant and most desirable choices among all the antibiotics. Conclusions: Implementation of a multidisciplinary antibiotic stewardship program in this academic, large, Indian hospital demonstrated feasibility and economic benefits

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