Infection
Conditions
Keywords
broad-spectrum antimicrobial, antibiotics pharmacist
Brief summary
To study the outcome of antibiotics stewardship
Detailed description
Retrospective cohort study by medical review and evaluation of broad-spectrum antibiotics to determine how appropriately it was bing used.
Interventions
DRUGmedical review of controlled broad-spectrum antibiotics
medical review of outcome of antibiotics stewardship by pharmacists and infectious disease physicians
Sponsors
National Taiwan University Hospital
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Inpatient with infectious disease and under broad-spectrum antibiotics
Exclusion criteria
* Poor prognosis was diagnosed or received conservative therapy only.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The percentage of appropriateness of empirical antibiotics choosing. | up to 8 weeks | 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. |
| The percentage of appropriateness of de-escalation of therapy. | up to 8 weeks | For example,continued piperacillin-tazobactam was seen to be inappropriate when microbiologic results and clinical status permit de-escalation. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of adverse events of antibiotics were recorded. | up to 8 weeks |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed