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. 2021 Mar 12;49(3):184–193. doi: 10.1080/21548331.2021.1889213
  VARIABLES:
1 Patient consent
2 Patient age
3 Gender
4 Employment status
5 Transferred in from another facility or not
6 History of hospitalization in the past 90 days
7 History of antimicrobial use in the past 90 days
8 Was the patient on any catheter
9 Was the patient on any intubation
10 Does the patient have malaria
11 HIV status of the patient
12 Patient on HAART or not
13 Tb status of the patient
14 Was the patient malnourished or not
15 Diagnoses
16 Additional Surgery
17 Patient on any Antimicrobials
18 Antimicrobials used including dose
19 Hospital staff who prescribed the antimicrobial
20 Route of administration
21 Prescribed as Prophylaxis or Treatment
22 Was Prophylaxis Medical or Surgical
23 Duration of Antimicrobials for Surgical Prophylaxis
24 Type of Infection where Antimicrobials where prescribed for Treatment
25 If Culture and Sensitivity test (CST) was ordered before initiation of empiric antimicrobials
26 If Culture and Sensitivity (CST) result was available in the file
27 Name of organisms cultured
28 If treatment modified as per CST results
29 If IV antibiotics switched to Oral antibiotics if GIT was stable
30 Was this item prescribed from SA-EDL
31 If there were any missed doses
32 If missed doses were due to out of stock issues
33 If the item was written on the drug sheet
34 If item was prescribed from SA-EDL
35 If the item was prescribed in INN name