Real World Patterns of Antimicrobial Use and Microbiology Investigations in Patients with Sepsis outside the Critical Care Unit: Secondary Analysis of Three Nation-Wide Point Prevalence Studies

Real World Patterns of Antimicrobial Use and Microbiology Investigations in Patients with Sepsis outside the Critical Care Unit: Secondary Analysis of Three Nation-Wide Point Prevalence Studies

Recent description of the microbiology of sepsis on the wards or information on the real-life antibiotic choices used in sepsis is lacking. There is growing concern of the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and omission of microbiological investigations in the management of septic patients. We perfor...

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Main Authors: Maja Kopczynska, Ben Sharif, Harry Unwin, John Lynch, Andrew Forrester, Claudia Zeicu, Sian Cleaver, Svetlana Kulikouskaya, Tom Chandy, Eshen Ang, Emily Murphy, Umair Asim, Bethany Payne, Jessica Nicholas, Alessia Waller, Aimee Owen, Zhao Xuan Tan, Robert Ross, Jack Wellington, Yahya Amjad, Vidhi Unadkat, Faris Hussain, Jessica Smith, Sashiananthan Ganesananthan, Harriet Penney, Joy Inns, Carys Gilbert, Nicholas Doyle, Amit Kurani, Thomas Grother, Paul McNulty, Angelica Sharma, Tamas Szakmany
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
sepsis
antibiotics
microbiology
investigations
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/9/1337

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