Introduction Days of antibiotic spectrum coverage (DASC), a novel metric for both
antimicrobial volume and spectrum, was proposed to measure inpatient antimicrobial …

Background Days of therapy (DOT), the most widely used benchmarking metric for antibiotic
consumption, may not fully measure stewardship efforts to promote use of narrow-spectrum …

The antibiotic spectrum is not reflected in conventional antimicrobial metrics. Days of
antibiotic spectrum coverage (DASC) is a novel quantitative metric for antimicrobial …

Recently, the days of antibiotic spectrum coverage (DASC) using the antibiotic spectrum
coverage (ASC) score was reported as a new tool for measuring antimicrobial use. The days …

Benchmarks for antimicrobial consumption measured in antimicrobial days are beginning to
emerge. The relationship between the traditional measure of days of therapy and …

Antibacterial surveillance is an essential measure for strengthening the management of
clinical antibiotic use. This study aimed to determine the trends and drivers of inpatient …

Purpose Defined daily doses (DDD) are widely used as a unit to measure drug use in
hospital and community settings. However, discrepancies exist between DDD and actual …

Background Estimating the baseline antimicrobial consumption is extremely important to
monitor the impact of antimicrobial stewardship activities that aim to reduce the burden and …

Sir, Recently, Coenen et al. 1 reported that number of packages per 1000 inhabitants per
day (PID) is a more appropriate measure than number of defined daily doses (DDDs) per …

A cornerstone of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) is monitoring quantitative
antibiotic use. Frequently used metrics are defined daily dose (DDD) and days of therapy …