Antibiotic stewardship benchmarking–Using the WHO point prevalence survey of antimicrobial prescribing in a Tertiary Care Public Hospital, Karachi

• Ale Zehra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ale Zehra, Tehreem Ansari, Syed Shaukat Ali Muttaqi Shah

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ale.zehra@duhs.edu.pk (AZ); syedshaukatali@uoalfarahidi.edu.iq (SSAMS)

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Tehreem Ansari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ale Zehra, Tehreem Ansari, Syed Shaukat Ali Muttaqi Shah

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Dow University Hospital (Ojha Campus), Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Syed Shaukat Ali Muttaqi Shah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ale Zehra, Tehreem Ansari, Syed Shaukat Ali Muttaqi Shah

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ale.zehra@duhs.edu.pk (AZ); syedshaukatali@uoalfarahidi.edu.iq (SSAMS)

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Al-Farahidi University, Baghdad, Iraq

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4231-0838

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• Beenish Syed ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Dow University Hospital (Ojha Campus), Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Mehwish Rizvi ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Fakhsheena Anjum ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Tehrim Fatima ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Farah Saeed

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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