Consumption of antibiotics at an Italian university hospital during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Were all antibiotic prescriptions appropriate?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy; Luigi Sacco Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences DIBIC, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.giacomelli@unimi.it.
• ² Department of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ³ Pharmaceutical Department, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Fatebenefratelli-Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ Diagnostic Services, Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Bioemergency Diagnostics, ASST-FBF-Sacco, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy; Luigi Sacco Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences DIBIC, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.