Use of the WHO Access, Watch, and Reserve classification to define patterns of hospital antibiotic use (AWaRe): an analysis of paediatric survey data from 56 countries

Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO's global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable global...

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Published in:	The Lancet global health Vol. 7; no. 7; pp. e861 - e871
Main Authors:	Lee, Brian R, Versporten, Ann, Magrini, Nicola, Sharland, Mike, Irwin, Adam, da Silva, Andre, Whitelaw, Andrew, Vasudevan, Anil Kumar, Sharma, Anita, Justicia, Antonio, Chikkappa, Ashok, Jing, Chuamei, Zhu, Chunmei, Jacqueline, Daglish, Tian, Daiyin, Dharmapalan, Dhanya, Roilides, Emmanuel, Yarci, Erbu, Majda-Stanisławska, Ewa, Torres, Federico Martinon, Liu, Gang, Li, Jianping, Zhang, Jiaosheng, Deng, Jikui, Liu, Jing, Qian, Jing, Fukuoka, Kahoru, Yao, Kaihu, Cheung, Kaman, Ojeda, Karla, Kaffe, Katerina, Kreitmeyer, Katharina, Grimwood, Keith, Tang, Lanfang, Lin, Li, Wu, Lijuan, Speirs, Lynne, Duse, Marzia, Premru, Mueller, Tunga, Onkaraiah, McMaster, Paddy, Pansa, Paola, Paopongsawan, Pongsatorn, Cao, Qing, Praveen, Saroey, Drysdale, Simon, Subramanian, Sreeram, Vergnano, Stefania, Gandra, Sumanth, Behrends, Uta, Li, Wei, Zhang, Wenshuang, Zheng, Yuejie, Enimil, Anthony, Neubert, Antje, McCullagh, Bernadette, Carvajal, Camila, Konopnicki, Deborah, van Elzakker, Erika, Gawrys, Gerard, Markovic, Goran, Pristas, Irina, Hoxha, Iris, AlSalman, Jameela, Pagava, Karaman, Iregbu, Kenneth, Cooper, Mandelin, del Castillo, Marcelo, Hojman, Martin, Hudson, Melissa, Alshehri, Mohamed, Buijtels, Patricia, Quiros, Rodolfo, Burokiene, Sigita, Cornistein, Wanda, Holemans, Xavier, Brothers, Adam, Hurst, Amanda, Lee, Betty P, Boge, Craig, Naeem, Fouzia, Maples, Holly, Olsen, Jared, Gerber, Jeffrey, Girotto, Jennifer, Tansmore, Jessica, Manaloor, John, Patel, Karisma, Klein, Kristin, Fernandez, Marisol, Crawford, Michelle, Hamdy, Rana, Banerjee, Ritu, Olivero, Rosemary, Ogrin, Sara, Jones, Sarah, Weissman, Scott, Chan, Shannon, Henderson, Sheryl, Metjian, Talene
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 01-07-2019 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adolescent Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage Antimicrobial Stewardship Child Child, Preschool Drug Utilization Health Care Surveys Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Pediatrics Pharmacy Service, Hospital World Health Organization
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Summary:	Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO's global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable globally. We aimed to present data on patterns of paediatric AWaRe antibiotic use that could be used for local and national stewardship interventions. 1-day point prevalence survey antibiotic prescription data were combined from two independent global networks: the Global Antimicrobial Resistance, Prescribing, and Efficacy in Neonates and Children and the Global Point Prevalence Survey on Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance networks. We included hospital inpatients aged younger than 19 years receiving at least one antibiotic on the day of the survey. The WHO AWaRe classification was used to describe overall antibiotic use as assessed by the variation between use of Access, Watch, and Reserve antibiotics, for neonates and children and for the commonest clinical indications. Of the 23 572 patients included from 56 countries, 18 305 were children (77·7%) and 5267 were neonates (22·3%). Access antibiotic use in children ranged from 7·8% (China) to 61·2% (Slovenia) of all antibiotic prescriptions. The use of Watch antibiotics in children was highest in Iran (77·3%) and lowest in Finland (23·0%). In neonates, Access antibiotic use was highest in Singapore (100·0%) and lowest in China (24·2%). Reserve antibiotic use was low in all countries. Major differences in clinical syndrome-specific patterns of AWaRe antibiotic use in lower respiratory tract infection and neonatal sepsis were observed between WHO regions and countries. There is substantial global variation in the proportion of AWaRe antibiotics used in hospitalised neonates and children. The AWaRe classification could potentially be used as a simple traffic light metric of appropriate antibiotic use. Future efforts should focus on developing and evaluating paediatric antibiotic stewardship programmes on the basis of the AWaRe index. GARPEC was funded by the PENTA Foundation. GARPEC-China data collection was funded by the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (SZSM2015120330). bioMérieux provided unrestricted funding support for the Global-PPS.
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ISSN:	2214-109X 2214-109X
DOI:	10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30071-3