dosage: Data Set with Treatment Dosages as Defined by EUCAST

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Data Set with Treatment Dosages as Defined by EUCAST

Description

EUCAST breakpoints used in this package are based on the dosages in this data set. They can be retrieved with eucast_dosage().

Usage

dosage

Format

A tibble with 759 observations and 9 variables:

• ab
  Antimicrobial ID as used in this package (such as AMC), using the official EARS-Net (European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network) codes where available

• name
  Official name of the antimicrobial drug as used by WHONET/EARS-Net or the WHO

• type
  Type of the dosage, either "high_dosage", "standard_dosage", or "uncomplicated_uti"

• dose
  Dose, such as "2 g" or "25 mg/kg"

• dose_times
  Number of times a dose must be administered

• administration
  Route of administration, either "", "im", "iv", or "oral"

• notes
  Additional dosage notes

• original_txt
  Original text in the PDF file of EUCAST

• eucast_version
  Version number of the EUCAST Clinical Breakpoints guideline to which these dosages apply, either 15, 14, 13.1, 12, or 11

Download Our Reference Data

All reference data sets in the AMR package - including information on microorganisms, antimicrobials, and clinical breakpoints - are freely available for download in multiple formats: R, MS Excel, Apache Feather, Apache Parquet, SPSS, and Stata.

For maximum compatibility, we also provide machine-readable, tab-separated plain text files suitable for use in any software, including laboratory information systems.

Visit our website for direct download links, or explore the actual files in our GitHub repository.

Examples

dosage

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