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Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients

Year: 2017
Type: review
Abstract: Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 1 Dichotomous outcomes, increase in desired practice. . . . . . . . . . . .Analysis 1.2.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 2 Dichotomous outcomes, all RCTs with results of cluster RCTs adjusted by inflation factor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Analysis 1.3.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 3 Dichotomous outcomes, low or medium 'Risk of bias' studies only. . . . . . .Analysis 1.4.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 4 Continuous outcomes, duration of all antibiotic treatment (days). . . . . . .Analysis 1.5.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 5 Continuous outcomes, duration of all antibiotic treatment with results of cluster RCTs adjusted by inflation factor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Analysis 1.6.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 6 Continuous outcomes, low or medium 'Risk of bias' studies only. . . . . . . .Analysis 1.7.Comparison 1 Effectiveness: Prescribing outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 7 Continuous outcome, consumption of targeted antibiotic only, standardised mean reduction (original outcome cost, days or DDD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Analysis 2.1.Comparison 2 Adverse effects: Clinical outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 1 Mortality, all RCTs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Analysis 2.2.Comparison 2 Adverse effects: Clinical outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 2 Mortality, all RCTs with results of cluster RCTs adjusted by inflation factor. . . . . . .Analysis 2.3.Comparison 2 Adverse effects: Clinical outcomes from RCTs of interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, Outcome 3 Mortality, low or medium 'Risk of bias' RCTs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients (Review)
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd003543.pub4
Authors: Peter Davey, Charis A Marwick, Claire L Scott, Esmita Charani, Kirsty McNeil, Erwin Brown, Ian M Gould, Craig R Ramsay, Susan Michie
Institutions: University of Dundee, NHS Education for Scotland, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Imperial College London, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, University of Aberdeen, The Royal Free Hospital, University College London
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Imperial College London, Public Health England, Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
OpenAlex ID: W4294236078
FWCI: 17.94
Cites: 305
Cited by: 1,098
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