Abstract:The WHO has set Defined Daily Dose which represent the average daily dose of an antibiotic in a standard patient. The DDD mainly
focuses on population-based parameters & assumes that patients as well as hospitals are homogenous entities. DOTs are very useful
in order to classify antibiotic days based on patient-level exposure. DOTs merely mean the number of days that a patient is on an
antibiotic, irrespective of dose. DOTs signifies that the underlying assumptions about antibiotic dosing was appropriate. … Show more
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