PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dr. Imran Qureshi
AU  - Mr. Hani Habayeb
AU  - Dr. Clive Grundy
TI  - Improving the correct prescription and dosage of gentamicin
AID  - 10.1136/bmjquality.u134.w317
DP  - 2012 Jan 01
TA  - BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
PG  - u134.w317
VI  - 1
IP  - 1
4099  - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/1/1/u134.w317.short
4100  - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/1/1/u134.w317.full
SO  - BMJ Qual Improv Report2012 Jan 01; 1
AB  - Gentamicin is an amino glycoside antibiotic, which is used predominantly in gram-negative infections but also has anti-staphylococcal activity. It is commonly used because of its lack of diffogenicity. There are recognised issues with its dosing of which time is a major factor. A baseline study demonstrated that dosing was only being carried out correctly 30% of the time. This has serious consequences for the treatment of infections. This quality improvement project intervened with the use of a gentamicin calculator, which enabled users to perform three complex mathematical equations simultaneously without error. Post measurement demonstrated that correct dosing had increased to 92%, which was a significant increase.