• Clin Med (Lond) · Jan 2021

    A quality improvement project on adherence to antibiotic policy in acute admissions from a tertiary care hospital in south India.

    • Roshni Pillay, Balram Rathish, Arun Wilson, Anup Warrier, and Geetha Mary Philips.
    • Aster Medcity, Kochi, India.
    • Clin Med (Lond). 2021 Jan 1; 21 (1): e88e91e88-e91.

    AbstractThe indiscriminate use of antibiotics in clinical practice may be an independent risk factor for the development of antimicrobial resistance. To combat this, our hospital implemented a hospital antibiotic policy which outlines the appropriate antibiotic to be used in an acute admission, based on a continuously updated local antibiogram. However, we felt that compliance with the policy was poor and hence carried out a quality improvement project (QIP) to assess and increase compliance. We show that a simple QIP model combined with the use of a mobile application can serve to improve compliance even in a low-resource setting with minimum infrastructure. This model could be easily extrapolated into similar settings.© Royal College of Physicians 2021. All rights reserved.

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