The reports of the 2018 Hospital National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (NAPS), Surgical NAPS and Aged Care NAPS have been published. See here.
A summary of the flagship Hospital NAPS for 2018 is included below.
The 2018 Hospital NAPS provides an overview of antimicrobial prescribing in Australian public and private hospitals. This is the sixth year that the survey has been conducted. Consistent themes continue to emerge in relation to the appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing across Australia, in NAPS contributor hospitals. This report presents analyses of 26,714 prescriptions submitted to the Hospital NAPS database by 324 hospitals (231 public and 93 private) during 2018, and analyses of trends from 2013 to 2018. Key findings of the 2018 Hospital NAPS:
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