Vancomycin Utilization Evaluation in a Major Teaching Hospital in West of Iran

Abstract

Background: Drug utilization review is defined as an authorized, structured, ongoing review of prescribing, dispensing and use of medication. Vancomycin is a narrow-spectrum glycopeptide anti-infective with activity against many gram-positive organisms such as Staphylococci, group A

Keywords

• vancomycin
• teicoplanin
• drug utilization evaluation
• clinical pharmacist
• antibiotic use
• antibiotic resistance