[ANSWER]Abina – NUR350 Assessment 3 Discussion Paper: Enhancing Patient Safety in Residential Care: The Case for Monitoring Antibiotic Prescribing in Aged Care Homes in Australia

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Enhancing Patient Safety: Research shows that antibiotic use in Australian aged care homes has been on the rise. Sluggett et al. (2021) examined changes in antibiotic use in aged care homes in the country between 2005 and 2016 in a population-based, cross-sectional study that involved more than 502,000 residents drawn from 3,218 facilities. Analysing a total of 424.9 million resident days, they found that antibiotic use prevalence per year grew from 63.8% in 2015 to 70.3% in 2016.

In terms of defined daily doses relative to number of resident days, the study further established that antibiotic used jumped from 67.6 to 93.8 defined daily doses per 1,000 resident days (Sluggett et al. 2021). Raban et al. (2020) studied 68 aged care homes in Australia for the period 2014-2017 and reported a similar trend. From the surface, the increased use of antibiotics in aged care homes in Australia may appear justifiable considering that the population of the elderly has been growing rapidly and that aged care homes have a greater…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 1689 WORDS]

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