Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
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- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003543.pub2Copiar DOI
- Base de datos:
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Versión publicada:
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- 19 octubre 2005see what's new
- Tipo:
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- Intervention
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- Review
- Grupo Editorial Cochrane:
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Grupo Cochrane de Práctica y organización sanitaria efectivas
- Copyright:
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- Copyright © 2009 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Contributions of authors
Erwin Brown (Medical Microbiologist): Chairman of Joint BSAC and HIS Working Party on Optimising Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitals, initiated the review. Designed and conducted the literature search; hand searched bibliographies of individual papers for additional references. Reviewed all papers to identify those that reported the results of an intervention to change antibiotic prescribing, contributed to EPOC check sheets and data extraction.
Peter Davey (Clinical Pharmacologist): Wrote the protocol. Assisted with the literature search. Reviewed all intervention studies for quality using EPOC methodology, re‐analysed data from included CBA, CCT and RCT studies, member of the writing group responsible for the first draft of the review and for final decisions about included studies, contributed to EPOC check sheets and data extraction.
Giles Hartman (Medical Microbiologist): Assisted with the literature search. Reviewed all intervention studies for quality using EPOC methodology, contributed to EPOC check sheets and data extraction.
Craig Ramsay (Statistician): Re‐analysed all of the ITS studies that did not include regression methods in the original paper, member of the writing group responsible for the first draft of the review and for final decisions about included studies, contributed to EPOC check sheets and data extraction.
Phil Wiffen (Pharmacist, Co‐ordinating Editor Cochrane pain, Palliative and Supportive care group): Designed the Included Studies Table, advised on presentation of results, transferred review text, tables and figures to RevMan, member of the writing group responsible for the first draft of the review and for final decisions about included studies, contributed to EPOC check sheets and data extraction.
Lynda Fenelon (Microbiologist), Roger Finch (Infectious Diseases Physician), Ian Gould (Microbiologist), Alison Holmes (Hospital Epidemiologist), Eric Taylor (Surgeon) and Mark Wilcox (Microbiologist) are members of the BSAC/HIS Working Party, were involved in the design of the protocol, participated in the review of excluded and included studies, completed EPOC checksheets and extracted data from included studies, attended regular meetings of the Working Party and commented on the final draft of the Review.
Sources of support
Internal sources
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Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, England, UK.
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Hackensack University Medical Centre, UK.
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Imperial College, London, England, UK.
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Leeds Royal Infirmary, Leeds, England, UK.
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St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Tel Hashomer Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
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University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK.
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Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, Scotland, UK.
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UK Cochrane Centre, UK.
External sources
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British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, UK.
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Hospital Infection Society, UK.
Declarations of interest
None known.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the following expert advisors who have commented on the bibliography, early drafts of the protocol and drafts of the review:
Javier Garau, Infectious Diseases Physician, Barcelona, Spain;
Herman Goossens, Medical Microbiologist, Antwerp, Belgium;
Peter Gross, Infectious Diseases Physician, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA;
John McGowan, Epidemiologist, Atlanta, USA;
Ethan Rubinstein, Infectious Diseases Physician, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Version history
| Published | Title | Stage | Authors | Version |
| 2017 Feb 09 | Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients | Review | Peter Davey, Charis A Marwick, Claire L Scott, Esmita Charani, Kirsty McNeil, Erwin Brown, Ian M Gould, Craig R Ramsay, Susan Michie | |
| 2013 Apr 30 | Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients | Review | Peter Davey, Erwin Brown, Esmita Charani, Lynda Fenelon, Ian M Gould, Alison Holmes, Craig R Ramsay, Philip J Wiffen, Mark Wilcox | |
| 2005 Oct 19 | Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients | Review | Peter Davey, Erwin Brown, Lynda Fenelon, Roger Finch, Ian Gould, Giles Hartman, Alison Holmes, Craig Ramsay, Eric Taylor, Mark Wilcox, Philip J Wiffen | |
| 2002 Jan 21 | Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients | Protocol | Peter Davey, Erwin Brown, Giles Hartman | |
