Antimicrobial stewardship: 4b-Antibiotic-allergy mismatch in prescribing
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | Indicator 4b-Antibiotic-allergy mismatch in prescribing |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 612222 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 12/09/2016 Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Retired 25/01/2022 |
Description:![]() | The proportion of antibiotic prescriptions that have been classified as causing hypersensitivity for patients. |
Rationale:![]() | Preventing adverse outcomes from known allergies and adverse drug reactions to antibiotics can avoid significant harm to patients and reduce potentially avoidable hospitalisation (Antibiotic Expert Group 2014). |
Indicator set:![]() | Clinical care standard indicators: antimicrobial stewardship Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Retired 25/01/2022 Health!, Standard 12/09/2016 |
Outcome area:![]() | Use of guidelines and clinical condition Health!, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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