Vancomycin during delivery hospitalizations for women with group B streptococcus.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Vancomycin use for intrapartum GBS prophylaxis is not well characterized. The objective of this study was to describe trends in the use of vancomycin among women undergoing vaginal delivery with group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonization.

Methods

An administrative inpatient database that includes medications was analyzed to evaluate antibiotic use in women undergoing vaginal delivery hospitalizations complicated by GBS colonization from January 2006 to March 2015. Patients with other obstetric or infectious indications for antibiotics were excluded. Frequency of use of individual antibiotic agents was determined. The Cochran-Armitage test was used to assess temporal trends. An adjusted log-linear regression model accounting for demographic and hospital factors with v

SUBMITTER: Duffy CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757725 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature