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Global antibiotic dosing strategies in hospitalised children: characterising variation and implications for harmonisation of international guidelines
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Background
Paediatric global antibiotic guidelines are inconsistent, most likely due to the limited pharmacokinetic and efficacy data in this population. We investigated factors underlying variation in antibiotic dosing using data from five global point prevalence surveys.
Methods & findings
Data from 3,367 doses of the 16 most frequent intravenous antibiotics administered to children 1 month–12 years across 23 countries were analysed. For ea... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0252223
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS One More from this journal
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- e0252223
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-11
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1932-6203
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English
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1179385
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pubs:1179385
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2021-05-29
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- Clements et al.
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- 2021
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- ©2021 Clements et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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