Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Antibiotic Consumption and Stewardship Program in a Southern Italian Hospital
Maria Costantino, Valentina Giudice, Federica Campana, Alessandra Anna Iannelli, Pasqualina Scala, Walter Longanella, Francesco Marongiu, Emilia Anna Vozzella, Maria Giovanna Elberti, Maria Alfieri, Giovanni Boccia, Valeria Conti, Francesco De Caro, Amelia Filippelli, Juan Manuel Vázquez-Lago, Ana E · 2024
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Maria Costantino and co-authors review antibiotic use and stewardship at a hospital in southern Italy before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in work published in 2024. Antibiotic resistance is a growing global threat, and Italy launched a national action plan in 2017 to improve prescribing. The study checks whether that plan changed practice at one hospital.
The team compared prescribing in 2019 and 2023, judging how often prescriptions were appropriate and which drug classes were used. After the plan began, appropriate prescribing rose clearly. Use of first-line Access antibiotics and targeted therapy also rose. Reserve antibiotics, kept for the hardest cases, made up about a tenth of prescriptions, with an upward trend in 2023. The authors back continued monitoring and education to hold the gains.
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| CREATOR | Maria Costantino, Valentina Giudice, Federica Campana, Alessandra Anna Iannelli, Pasqualina Scala, Walter Longanella, Francesco Marongiu, Emilia Anna Vozzella, Maria Giovanna Elberti, Maria Alfieri, Giovanni Boccia, Valeria Conti, Francesco De Caro, Amelia Filippelli, Juan Manuel Vázquez-Lago, Ana E |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |