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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2007 59(1):162-163; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl440
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Correspondence

Hospital antibiotic prescribing data require careful local interpretation

Andrew Berrington*

Department of Microbiology, City Hospitals Sunderland, UK

*Tel: +44-191-5656256; Fax: +44-191-5410531; E-mail: andrew.berrington@chs.northy.nhs.uk

Keywords: drug utilization , antimicrobial agents , data collection

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Sir,

The recent publications of hospital antibiotic consumption data from the European Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption (ESAC) project,1 and subsequent correspondence,2 make particularly interesting reading in the UK. Eight years ago the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee reported that: ‘Those responsible for the NHS Information Technology Strategy should consider the contrast between the excellent data on GP prescribing ... and the lack of data on antimicrobial use in hospitals. All hospitals should install computer systems for patient-specific prescribing information at ward level.’3 This problem is being belatedly addressed in Scotland, where acute Trusts are to be required to analyse and report use of key antimicrobials in defined daily doses (DDDs) per 1000 bed days,4 but as yet there has been no coordinated response for the rest of the UK. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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