Hospitals have a specified set of antibiotics for restricted use (ARU), very expensive, which
are only recommended for special pathologies. The pharmacy department daily checks the
prescription of this kind of antibiotics since it is often the case that, after a careful analysis,
one can get the same therapeutic effects by using normal antibiotics which are much
cheaper and usually less aggressive. In this paper, we describe a multi-agent system to help
in the revision of medical prescriptions containing antibiotics of restricted use. The proposed …