TO STUDY WHETHER AFTER IMPLEMENTING AN ANTIBIOTIC POLICY,ANY DECREASE IN ANTIBIOTIC USE COULD BE OBSERVED IN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: P369- Bacterial sepsis of newborn, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/01/030324
- Lead Sponsor
- Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All inborn babies with inpatient stay for 48 hours at KIMS and all outborn babies with inpatient stay for 48 hours referred to KIMS
AND
on new antibiotics(started or changed)-suspected to have hospital aquired infections.
Exclusion Criteria
BABIES WITH
Culture positive sepsis
Meningitis
Dee seated abscess
Major congenital malformations requiring major surgeries
Babies who are critically ill despite negative culture
Baby suspected HAI second time, if within 1 week of stopping antibiotics
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in antibiotic overuse days per 1000 patient days between two periods(before and after antibiotic policy)Timepoint: Baseline and after 18 months of study
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in antibiotic days compared in gestation and weight categories before and after antibiotic policy <br/ ><br>Antibiotic overuse days per 100 ventilation days/per 1000 central line days before and after antibiotic policy <br/ ><br>Need to reinstitute antibiotics in the week following a completed course <br/ ><br>All cause mortality(gestation categories)Timepoint: Baseline and after 18 months of study