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From Snapshot to Strategy: Point Prevalence Survey-driven Improvements in Surgical Antibiotic Use

2025-06-24

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<h4>Background: </h4> A point prevalence survey (PPS) conducted at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in 2021 demonstrated that 60.6% of surgical inpatients were prescribed with antibiotics, of which 46.1% received extended-course (>24 hours) surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP). Hence, SGH antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) program implemented a series of targeted AMS strategies among surgical departments, namely...

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Literature Corpus work: ee6b89f6-579c-58a5-88d0-a6b5ce20fe0a
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202506.1936.v1

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