Both departments showed a decreasing trend in total cephalosporin consumption between 2014 and 2018 (8% to 14%).
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Retrospective audit of antibiotic use in a university general pediatrics department using hospital pharmacy dispensing data.
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Except for piperacillin (–46%, both units) and flucloxacillin (–38%, both units) in general pediatrics, an increasing trend in overall penicillin use was observed in both departments from 2014 to 2018.
In the NPICU, the consumption values of glycopeptides (vancomycin, teicoplanin) were between 2.3 and 4.0 g/100 days (3.1–4.0 DDD/100 days) and showed a slightly increasing trend between 2014 and 2018 (49% g/100 days and 10% DDD/100 days).
This development is an important target for ABS while the decrease of broad-spectrum cephalosporins group III and IV (57% g/100 days and 58% DDD/100 days) between 2014 and 2018 demonstrated a positive trend in this unit.