Hospital Antibiotic Policy Policy of Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College aligned with SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being .
This institutional policy provides guidelines for the rational and appropriate use of antibiotics at Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Centre. It covers prophylactic, empirical, presumptive, and definitive antimicrobial therapy for adult, pediatric, neonatal, obstetric, transplant, surgical, dialysis, and other specialized infections. The policy also addresses antimicrobial stewardship, culture-guided de-escalation, resistance surveillance, multidrug-resistant organisms, infection control, dosing, and surgical prophylaxis.
Policy issued: 2024-07.
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Awards 2 Publications (478) Plant based medicine as an alternative potential for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aures (MRSA) treatment: a review — Arenbenla Longchar, Souparnika Thekkumkara, Selvamani Palanisamy, S. K. Kanthalal, Baskar Venkidasamy, Rekha Thiruvengadam, Rekha A, Muthu Thiruvengadam. Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine (2026)Does Diagnostic Stewardship have the Ability to Reduce Health Insurance Premiums? — Nikunja K. Das, Rajashri Patil, Sahjid Mukhida, Avinash Pujari. Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth (2026)Efflux Pump Inhibitors: Revisiting an Old Strategy in the Era of Antimicrobial Resistance — Tanvi Naik, Nitin Chintaman Gawari, Ajith Kumar, AV Tilak. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (2026)Beyond culture positivity: Radiological anchoring and TB antimicrobial reporting in pulmonary tuberculosis suspects — Shailesh Bhanudas Meshram, Brendan Ferrao. IP Indian Journal of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (2026)Antibiotic Choice for Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Need to Look beyond the Forest — Anirban Bhattacharjee, Asir Tamboli, Prachee Sathe, Riddhi Kundu. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (2026)Antimicrobial resistance patterns and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among clinical isolates in a tertiary care hospital of Western Maharashtra — Snehal M. Deshmukhe, Chanda Vyawahare, Poonam Suryawanshi, Manisha M. Ratnaparkhi. Discover Public Health (2026)Letter on ‘Altered Pathogen Spectrum of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients Treated With Proton Pump Inhibitors’ — Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik (2026)Isolated Forearm Abscess with Bilateral Psoas Abscesses: An Unusual Presentation of Extrapulmonary Preextensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis without Pulmonary Involvement — Sanjay Gabhale, Balamoni Vinay Kumar Goud, Sai Karthik Guniganti. Annals of African Medicine (2026)Comment on “Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Intravenous Push Cefepime in Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis” — Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik, Rajesh Prasad Jayaswal (2026)Methodological considerations in the assessment of antimicrobial resistance awareness in rural settings — Akhil R. Nair. Indian Journal of Microbiology Research (2026)Explore more from SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being Other policies under SDG 3