Abstract
We investigated adherence to the Hospital Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines on vancomycin prescription in a large university-affiliated hospital in Shiraz. From August to December 2003, 200 hospitalized patients received vancomycin. For only 12 (6%) of these patients was vancomycin prescribed appropriately according to HICPAC guidelines. The main reasons why vancomycin use did not comply with HICPAC recommendations were: surgical prophylaxis in patients with negative cultures for resistant Gram-positive organisms, no investigation of vancomycin serum levels in patients receiving > 48 hours of vancomycin, vancomycin serum levels not repeated in patients receiving > 1 week of vancomycin, no appropriate adjustment of dosage with respect to serum levels in patients receiving vancomycin.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1195-1201 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2007 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
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