[HTML][HTML] Implementation and impact of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs: a systematic scoping review

D Donà, E Barbieri, M Daverio, R Lundin… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2020 - Springer
Background Antibiotics are the most common medicines prescribed to children in hospitals
and the community, with a high proportion of potentially inappropriate use. Antibiotic misuse …

Reviewing the WHO guidelines for antibiotic use for sepsis in neonates and children

A Fuchs, J Bielicki, S Mathur, M Sharland… - Paediatrics and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background Guidelines from 2005 for treating suspected sepsis in low-and middle-income
countries (LMIC) recommended hospitalisation and prophylactic intramuscular (IM) or …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial consumption and resistance in adult hospital inpatients in 53 countries: results of an internet-based global point prevalence survey

A Versporten, P Zarb, I Caniaux, MF Gros… - The Lancet Global …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The Global Point Prevalence Survey (Global-PPS) established an
international network of hospitals to measure antimicrobial prescribing and resistance …

[HTML][HTML] Use of the WHO Access, Watch, and Reserve classification to define patterns of hospital antibiotic use (AWaRe): an analysis of paediatric survey data from 56 …

Y Hsia, BR Lee, A Versporten, Y Yang… - The Lancet Global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO's global
action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access …

Consumption of oral antibiotic formulations for young children according to the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) antibiotic groups: an analysis of sales data …

Y Hsia, M Sharland, C Jackson, ICK Wong… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The 2017 WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children
(EMLc) groups antibiotics as Access, Watch, or Reserve, based on recommendations of their …

[HTML][HTML] Use of antibiotics in children younger than two years in eight countries: a prospective cohort study

ET Rogawski, JA Platts-Mills, JC Seidman… - Bulletin of the World …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To describe the frequency and factors associated with antibiotic use in early
childhood, and estimate the proportion of diarrhoea and respiratory illnesses episodes …

Antimicrobial resistance among children in sub-Saharan Africa

PCM Williams, D Isaacs, JA Berkley - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2018 - thelancet.com
Antimicrobial resistance is an important threat to international health. Therapeutic guidelines
for empirical treatment of common life-threatening infections depend on available …

Neonatal sepsis: mortality and morbidity in neonatal sepsis due to multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms: part 1

C Wattal, N Kler, JK Oberoi, A Fursule, A Kumar… - The Indian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The major causes of emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in neonatal
sepsis include empiric antibiotic prescriptions, unregulated use of over-the-counter drugs …

[HTML][HTML] The global maternal sepsis study and awareness campaign (GLOSS): study protocol

M Bonet, JP Souza, E Abalos, B Fawole, M Knight… - Reproductive health, 2018 - Springer
Background Maternal sepsis is the underlying cause of 11% of all maternal deaths and a
significant contributor to many deaths attributed to other underlying conditions. The effective …

[HTML][HTML] A global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use in neonatal intensive care units: the no-more-antibiotics and resistance (NO-MAS-R) study

P Prusakov, DA Goff, PS Wozniak, A Cassim… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Global assessment of antimicrobial agents prescribed to infants in the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU) may inform antimicrobial stewardship efforts. Methods We …