Antimicrobials Stewardship by Pharmacist

National Taiwan University Hospital200 enrolled

Overview

To study the outcome of antibiotics stewardship

Retrospective cohort study by medical review and evaluation of broad-spectrum antibiotics to determine how appropriately it was bing used.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Infection

Interventions

medical review of controlled broad-spectrum antibioticsDRUG

medical review of outcome of antibiotics stewardship by pharmacists and infectious disease physicians

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 99 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

inclusion criteria: * Inpatient with infectious disease and under broad-spectrum antibiotics exclusion criteria: * Poor prognosis was diagnosed or received conservative therapy only.

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital

Douliu, Dou-Liou, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The percentage of appropriateness of empirical antibiotics choosing.

For example,the inappropriate of piperacillin-tazobactam as empirical therapy was numbers of participants with no risk factors of deep tissue infection or DM foot /Number of participants treated with piperacillin-tazobactam for soft tissue infection.

Time frame: up to 8 weeks

The percentage of appropriateness of de-escalation of therapy.

For example,continued piperacillin-tazobactam was seen to be inappropriate when microbiologic results and clinical status permit de-escalation.

Time frame: up to 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Number of adverse events of antibiotics were recorded.

Time frame: up to 8 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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