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Paediatric antimicrobial stewardship and safe prescribing-an assessment of medical staff knowledge and behaviour
- Source :
- Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy Practice, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 1198-1198 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- JCFCorp SG PTE LTD, 2018.
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Abstract
- Objective: Determine baseline knowledge of antimicrobial stewardship, and safe prescribing among junior medical officers, monitor their level of participation in interactive education during protected teaching time and assess day-to-day prescribing behaviours over the subsequent 3-month period. Methods: A voluntary and anonymous survey of all non-consultant level medical officers was conducted with the use of an audience response system during mandatory face-to-face orientation sessions at a tertiary paediatric hospital. Routine prescribing audits monitored compliance with national and locally derived quality use of medicines indicators. Results: Eighty-six percent of medical officers participated by responding to at least one question (171/200). Response rate for individual questions ranged between 31% and 78%. Questions that addressed adverse drug reactions, documentation and monitoring for empiric antibiotics and the error-prone abbreviations IU and U were correctly answered by over 90% of participants. Other non-standard and error-prone abbreviations were less consistently identified. In practice, 68% of patients had complete adverse drug reaction documentation (113/166). Error-prone abbreviations were identified on 5% of audited medication orders (47/976), approximately half included a documented indication and intended dose. Conclusions: Participants demonstrated a good understanding of safe prescribing and antimicrobial stewardship. Audits of prescribing identified potential discrepancies between prescribing knowledge and behaviours.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Medical staff
mesh:Health Knowledge
lcsh:RS1-441
Pharmaceutical Science
Pharmacy
Audit
mesh:Medication Errors
Pediatrics
Drug Prescriptions
030226 pharmacology & pharmacy
lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica
Antimicrobial Stewardship
mesh:Pediatrics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Documentation
Surveys and Questionnaires
mesh:Drug Prescriptions
Medication Errors
Medicine
Antimicrobial stewardship
mesh:Practice
030212 general & internal medicine
Drug reaction
Original Research
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice
Response rate (survey)
business.industry
lcsh:RM1-950
Australia
mesh:Attitudes
medicine.disease
lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology
mesh:Australia
Family medicine
mesh:Surveys and Questionnaires
business
Quality use of medicines
Adverse drug reaction
mesh:Antimicrobial Stewardship
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18863655 and 1885642X
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pharmacy Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3106e2fa1bd6ce3c6ff22de1eaaf5ef4