Antibiotic use and Influencing Factors Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A Multicenter Point-Prevalence Study from Turkey
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2022
Yazarlar: İrfan Şencan, Yasemin Çağ, Oğuz Karabay, Behice Kurtaran, Ertuğrul Güçlü, Aziz Öğütlü, Zehra Demirbaş, Dilek Bulut, Gülden Eser Karlıdağ, Merve Sefa Sayar, Ezgi Gizem Şibar, Oya Özlem Eren Kutsoylu, Gülnur Kul, Serpil Erol, Begüm Bektaş, Tülay Ünver Ulusoy, Semanur Kuzi, Meltem TAŞBAKAN, Özge Yiğit, Nurgül Ceran, Ayşe Seza İnal, Pınar Ergen, Tansu YAMAZHAN, Hanife Uzar, Canan Ağalar
Balkan Medical Journal, Uluslararası, Wos, 2022, cilt 39, ss 209-217
DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2022.2021-11-62
Özet
Background: Broad-spectrum empirical antimicrobials are frequently prescribed for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) despite the lack of evidence for bacterial coinfection. Aims: We aimed to cross-sectionally determine the frequency of antibiotics use, type of antibiotics prescribed, and the factors influencing antibiotics use in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 confirmed by polymerase chain reaction. Study Design: The study was a national, multicenter, retrospective, and single-day point prevalence study. Methods: This was a national, multicenter, retrospective, and single-day point-prevalence study, conducted in the 24-h period between 00:00 and 24:00 on November 18, 2020, during the start of the second COVID-19 peak in Turkey. Results: < 0.001) were found to be independent factors associated with increased antibiotic use. Conclusion: The necessity of empirical antibiotics use in patients with COVID-19 should be reconsidered according to their clinical, imaging, and laboratory findings.