Variability in antibiotic use across nursing homes and the risk of antibiotic-related adverse outcomes for individual residents

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1331-1339

  Daneman, Nick ^a,b,c   Bronskill, Susan E ^a,c   Gruneir, Andrea ^a,c,d,e   Newman, Alice M ^a   Fischer, Hadas D ^a   Rochon, Paula A ^a,c,d   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,c   Bell, Chaim M ^a,c,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERY ELDERLY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOME FOR THE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 84939826440     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2770     Document Type: Article

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