Archives of Infectious Diseases & Therapy(AIDT)

CHU de Limoges, Service d’Accompagnement et de Soins Palliatifs, F-87042, Limoges, 2 Avenue Martin-Luther King, France

Publications

• Research Article   
  Prevalence of Antibiotic Prescription in the End-Of-Life Care of Hospitalised Geriatric Patients Presented Fever or Hypothermia Running Title: Antibiotic Prescription in the End-Of-Life Care
  Author(s): Benjamin Festou MD, Paul-Antoine Quesnel MD, Amadou M.D. Ndiaye MSc, Jean-François Faucher MD PhD and Achille Tchalla MD PhD*
  
  Currently, population aging is a public health issue. End-of-life situations of older patients in hospital are increasingly frequent and raise therapeutic and ethical questions. Patients at the end of their lives, particularly older patients, are more often exposed to infections. The place of antibiotic therapy is central in terminal palliative care. Nevertheless, the use of antibiotics should always be assessed, especially because of the development of bacterial resistance. Therefore, this study assessed the prevalence of antibiotic use in older people at the end of life. This descriptive retrospective study included all patients aged 75 years and older, hospitalised in 2018 at the Limoges University Hospital Centre and at the hospital in Saint-Yrieix la Perche who died in hospital. The primary outcome was the use of an antibiotic in the last 10 days of life. Of the 338 patients incl.. Read More»
  

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