Adopting a model of antimicrobial stewardship program to anti-tubercular treatment stewardship: A single-centre experience from a private tertiary care hospital in South India

Swathy S. Samban; Akhilesh Kunoor; Preetha Prasanna; Malavika Krishnakumar; Nandita Shashindran; Chithira V. Nair; Abhinandh Babu; Ananth Ram K. J.; Sivapriya G. Nair; Subhash Chandra; Kiran G. Kulirankal; Georg Gutjahr; Rakesh P. S.; Dipu T. Sathyapalan; Merlin Moni

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0310493

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Adopting a model of antimicrobial stewardship program to anti-tubercular treatment stewardship: A single-centre experience from a private tertiary care hospital in South India

Swathy S. Samban ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Swathy S. Samban, Akhilesh Kunoor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Akhilesh Kunoor ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Swathy S. Samban, Akhilesh Kunoor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Preetha Prasanna,

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Administration, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Malavika Krishnakumar,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Science Research, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Nandita Shashindran,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Chithira V. Nair,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Abhinandh Babu,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Ananth Ram K. J.,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Sivapriya G. Nair,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Subhash Chandra,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4557-7295

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Kiran G. Kulirankal,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Georg Gutjahr,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Research in Analytics & Technology for Education (CREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India
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Rakesh P. S.,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Senior Technical Advisor, The Union, South East Asia Office, New Delhi, India
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Dipu T. Sathyapalan ,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: diputsmck@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1098-9900

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Merlin Moni

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Adopting a model of antimicrobial stewardship program to anti-tubercular treatment stewardship: A single-centre experience from a private tertiary care hospital in South India

Swathy S. Samban,
Akhilesh Kunoor,
Preetha Prasanna,
Malavika Krishnakumar,
Nandita Shashindran,
Chithira V. Nair,
Abhinandh Babu,
Ananth Ram K. J.,
Sivapriya G. Nair,
Subhash Chandra

Published: November 5, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310493

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