Figure 1.
Flow chart of antimicrobial stewardship strategies applied in the ICU at a tertiary hospital in China.
These strategies primarily included formulary restriction, preauthorization, perioperative quinolone restriction, and control of total antibiotic consumption.
Table 1.
Comparison of demographic and clinical data of patients before and after antimicrobial stewardship.
Table 2.
Changes of antimicrobial consumption (DDDs/100 patient/days) after the antimicrobial stewardship.
Table 3.
Changes of percentage of bacterial isolates with antibiotic resistance (%) after antimicrobial stewardship.
Table 4.
Comparison of the ICU physicians' initial antibiotic selection before and after antimicrobial stewardship.