PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Roshni Pillay
AU  - Balram Rathish
AU  - Arun Wilson
AU  - Anup Warrier
AU  - Geetha Mary Philips
TI  - A quality improvement project on adherence to antibiotic policy in acute admissions from a tertiary care hospital in south India
AID  - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0253
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - e88--e91
VI  - 21
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/21/1/e88.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/21/1/e88.full
SO  - Clin Med2021 Jan 01; 21
AB  - The 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.