Measurement of adult antibacterial drug use in 130 US hospitals: comparison of defined daily dose and days of therapy.

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Hospitals are advised to measure antibiotic use and monitor its relationship to resistance. The World Health Organization's recommended metric is the defined daily dose (DDD). An alternative measure is the number of days of therapy (DOT). The purpose of this study was to contrast these measures.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Clin Infect Dis

Title: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISSN (Electronic): 1537-6591

ISSN (Print): 1058-4838

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 01 2007

Volume: 44

Issue: 5

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[1 ] School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. repolk@vcu.edu

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Publisher Item ID: CID40490

DOI: 10.1086/511640

PubMed ID: 17278056

SO-VID: b1eaf281-24c1-4cc4-a2ab-5fcaaad86315

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