TY - JOUR
T1 - Generieke kwaliteitsindicatoren voor antibioticagebruik in het ziekenhuis
AU - van den Bosch, Caroline M. A.
AU - Hulscher, Marlies E. J. L.
AU - Wille, Jan
AU - Natsch, Stephanie
AU - van Benthem, Birgit H. B.
AU - Prins, Jan M.
AU - Geerlings, Suzanne E.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - As in other countries, the growing resistance to antimicrobial drugs is also taking place in the Netherlands; the primary cause being the total consumption of antibiotics. Given the steady decline in the discovery of new antimicrobials, better use of agents currently available is warranted. Guidelines describing appropriate antimicrobial therapy play an important role; however, such guidelines are not optimally used in daily practice. Quality indicators can be used to assess the quality of antibiotic treatment and evaluate the impact of interventions aimed at improving care. Quality indicators used for evaluating treatment of infections of the respiratory and urinary tracts are developed previously. A comprehensive set of indicators that could be used to assess the quality of hospital antibiotic use for all bacterial infections has not yet been developed. A new project has recently been started in the Netherlands called 'The development of Reliable generic quality Indicators for the optimalisation of ANTibiotic use in the hospital' (RIANT study) for developing such a set of comprehensive indicators
AB - As in other countries, the growing resistance to antimicrobial drugs is also taking place in the Netherlands; the primary cause being the total consumption of antibiotics. Given the steady decline in the discovery of new antimicrobials, better use of agents currently available is warranted. Guidelines describing appropriate antimicrobial therapy play an important role; however, such guidelines are not optimally used in daily practice. Quality indicators can be used to assess the quality of antibiotic treatment and evaluate the impact of interventions aimed at improving care. Quality indicators used for evaluating treatment of infections of the respiratory and urinary tracts are developed previously. A comprehensive set of indicators that could be used to assess the quality of hospital antibiotic use for all bacterial infections has not yet been developed. A new project has recently been started in the Netherlands called 'The development of Reliable generic quality Indicators for the optimalisation of ANTibiotic use in the hospital' (RIANT study) for developing such a set of comprehensive indicators
M3 - Article
C2 - 21854663
SN - 0028-2162
VL - 155
SP - A3502
JO - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
JF - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
IS - 33
ER -