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The total number of antimicrobial courses prescribed
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(1) Number of antimicrobial courses started per 1000 resident-days [16,17,18]
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Objective
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+
|
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(2) Number of antibiotic transactions per 1000 resident-days [19]
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Objective
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?
|
|
(3) Point prevalence of antimicrobial use [20]
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Objective
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?
|
|
(4) Total number of antimicrobial courses [21]
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Objective
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?
|
|
(5) Mean number of residents treated with antimicrobial per month [22]
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Objective
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?
|
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Appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing
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(6) Loeb minimum criteria for initiating antibiotic therapy in SSTIs, RTIs, UTIs, fever where the focus of infection is unknown [23]
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Subjective
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?
|
|
(7) Revisited McGeer criteria for diagnosing infection: SSTIs, RTIs, UTIs, gastrointestinal tract infections, systemic infections [24, 25]
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Subjective
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-
|
|
(8) Crnich algorithm for the initiation of antibiotics for UTIs [26]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
(9) Van Buul algorithms to evaluate appropriateness of initiating or withholding antibiotics in SSTIs, RTIs, UTIs [27]
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Subjective
|
?
|
|
(10) The Medication Appropriateness Index [28, 29]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
Days of therapy per 1000 resident-days
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(11) Rate of antimicrobial days of therapy per 1000 resident-days [16,17,18]
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Objective
|
+
|
|
(12) Antibiotic utilization ratio [16,17,18]
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Objective
|
?
|
|
Rate of antimicrobial resistance
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(13) Number of cases with specific (non-) resistant organisms [30]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
(14) Number of specific (non-) resistant isolates/ organisms [31, 32]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
(15) Drug Resistance Index [33]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
Mortality related to infection
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(16) Rate of mortality related to infection per 1000 resident-days [34]
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Subjective
|
-
|
|
(17) Proportion of mortality related to infection [30]
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Subjective
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-
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