An audit of antimicrobial prescribing and microbiological sampling in a complex wound clinic

Price, Annie, Dacosta, Francesca, Harding, Keith, Holloway, Samantha and Gubb, Samuel 2019. An audit of antimicrobial prescribing and microbiological sampling in a complex wound clinic. Wounds UK 15 (2) , pp. 24-29.

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Abstract

Infection is a major contributing factor to delayed healing in chronic wounds. The misuse of antimicrobials is common to all specialties, and recent publications have highlighted the importance of antimicrobial stewardship in wound care. In view of this, the authors audited the prescription of systemic and topical antimicrobials as well as microbiological sampling practices in a multidisciplinary complex wound clinic. Only 9.3% of patient encounters resulted in the use of systemic antibiotics, whereas topical antimicrobials were used more frequently. Microbiological sampling was rarely performed, and swabbing was done more often than tissue biopsy.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine
Publisher:	OmniaMed Communications
ISBN:	17466814
ISSN:	1746-6814
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2026 16:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184837

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