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Dosing Errors in Prescribed Antibiotics for Older Persons With CKD: A Retrospective Time Series Analysis

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Prescribing excessive doses of oral antibiotics is common in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and in this population is implicated in more than one-third of preventable adverse drug events. To improve the care of patients with CKD, many ambulatory laboratories now report estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). We sought to describe the rate of ambulatory antibiotic dosing errors in CKD and examine the impact of eGFR reporting on …

Authors

Farag A; Garg AX; Li L; Jain AK

Journal

American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 422–428

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

3 2014

DOI

10.1053/j.ajkd.2013.09.009

ISSN

0272-6386