The proposed Drug Resistance Index (DRI) is not a good measure of antibiotic effectiveness in relation to drug resistance

Christina M J E Vandenbroucke-Grauls; Gunnar Kahlmeter; Jan Kluytmans; Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh; Dominique L Monnet; Gunnar Skov Simonsen; Robert L Skov; Ute Wolff Sönksen; Andreas Voss

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001838

The proposed Drug Resistance Index (DRI) is not a good measure of antibiotic effectiveness in relation to drug resistance

Christina M J E Vandenbroucke-Grauls^*
, Gunnar Kahlmeter
, Jan Kluytmans
, Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh
, Dominique L Monnet
, Gunnar Skov Simonsen
, Robert L Skov
, Ute Wolff Sönksen
, Andreas Voss

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	e001838
Journal	BMJ global health
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001838
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019

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Drug Resistance Index
antibiotic use
antimicrobial resistance

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Vandenbroucke-Grauls, C. M. J. E., Kahlmeter, G., Kluytmans, J., Kluytmans-van den Bergh, M., Monnet, D. L., Simonsen, G. S., Skov, R. L., Wolff Sönksen, U., & Voss, A. (2019). The proposed Drug Resistance Index (DRI) is not a good measure of antibiotic effectiveness in relation to drug resistance. BMJ global health, 4(4), Article e001838. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001838

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