Article
An ecological comparison of hospital-level antibiotic use and mortality in 36,124,372 acute/general medicine inpatients in England
2020-09-25
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Objectives</h4> To determine the extent to which variation in hospital antibiotic prescribing is associated with mortality risk in acute/general medicine inpatients. <h4>Design</h4> Ecological analysis, using electronic health records from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and antibiotic data from IQVIA. <h4>Setting</h4> 135 acute National Health Service (NHS) hospital Trusts in England. <h4>...
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- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fa35f82-2269-524b-83a0-05bbba668eae
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.24.20199448
