Hospital Antibiotic Policy Policy of Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth aligned with SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being .
This institutional policy provides guidelines for the rational and appropriate use of antibiotics at Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Centre. It covers prophylactic, empirical, presumptive, and definitive antimicrobial therapy for adult, pediatric, neonatal, obstetric, transplant, surgical, dialysis, and other specialized infections. The policy also addresses antimicrobial stewardship, culture-guided de-escalation, resistance surveillance, multidrug-resistant organisms, infection control, dosing, and surgical prophylaxis.
Policy issued: 2024-07.
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Publications 489
Conferences 99
Events 25
Projects 16
Papers 12
Books 7
Posters 5
Awards 1 Publications (489) Antibiotic Choice for Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Need to Look beyond the Forest — Anirban Bhattacharjee, Asir Tamboli, Prachee Sathe, Riddhi Kundu. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (2026)Antimicrobial resistance patterns and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among clinical isolates in a tertiary care hospital of Western Maharashtra — Snehal M. Deshmukhe, Chanda Vyawahare, Poonam Suryawanshi, Manisha M. Ratnaparkhi. Discover Public Health (2026)Letter on ‘Altered Pathogen Spectrum of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients Treated With Proton Pump Inhibitors’ — Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik (2026)Clinical Profile and Management of Acute Epididymo-orchitis in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Prospective Observational Study — Shreya Reddy Nagula, Jayesh Khadse. Annals of African Medicine (2026)Comment on “Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Intravenous Push Cefepime in Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis” — Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik, Rajesh Prasad Jayaswal (2026)Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 — Jorge R Ledesma, Meixin Zhang, Mei Fong Liew, Regina-Mae Villanueva Dominguez, Sophie Mei Lin Whikehart, Megan Verma, Jianing Ma, Amanda Movo. The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2026)Methodological considerations in the assessment of antimicrobial resistance awareness in rural settings — Akhil R. Nair. Indian Journal of Microbiology Research (2026)Methodological considerations in interpreting postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis after clean thyroid and breast surgery — Mayur Ingale, Archana Dhyani, Rajnish Kumar, Heena Arora. Tropical Doctor (2026)Unveiling the antibiotic resistance pattern in <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> : A systematic review (2013-2024) — Snehal Mayanand Deshmukhe, Chanda Vyawahare, Poonam Suryawanshi, Manisha M Ratnaparkhi, Nageswari Gandham. World Journal of Experimental Medicine (2026)Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates from India — Deepali Desai, Tina Sharma, Nageswari Gandham, Priyanka Khopkar-Kale, Neeraj Bharti, Sunitha Manjari Kasibhatla, Uddhavesh Sonavane, Ruma Banerjee. Scientific Reports (2026)Explore more from SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being Other policies under SDG 3