National Level Cross-Sectional Study on Antibiotic Use in Children during the Pre- and Early COVID-19 Eras
This study aimed to investigate national data for a quantitative evaluation of antibiotic usage in Korean children during the pre- and early COVID-19 period. This was a cross-sectional study from 2016 to 2021 of children <18 years, grouped by age (0, 1, 2-4, 5-11, and 12-17 years) and city/province. Systemic antibiotic prescriptions, days of administration, and population by age and region were collected. Days of therapy (DOT)/1000 pediatric inhabitant per day (PID) was used for antibiotic quantitative monitoring. A total of 257,088,265 antibiotic doses were prescribed to 170,309,944 children during the 6-year period. The highest DOT during the entire study period was observed in the 1-year age group, followed by the 2-4- and 0-year age groups. The highest DOT was observed in 2019, with 72.8 DOT/1000 PID in the 1-year age group, which fell to 34.7 DOT/1000 PID in 2020, however, DOT soon increased at similar rates to that in the pre-COVID-19 period. A higher DOT/1000 PID was observed for third-generation cephalosporins in 58.8% of the regions compared to beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitors. To conclude, reductions in antibiotic use during the early COVID-19 pandemic period were not maintained. Further interventions are needed to decrease antibiotic overuse and misuse.
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2024 |
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13 |
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Enthalten in: |
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) - 13(2024), 3 vom: 09. März |
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Englisch |
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Park, Ji Young [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 29.03.2024 published: Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.3390/antibiotics13030249 |
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