dosage: Data Set with Treatment Dosages as Defined by EUCAST

In msberends/AMR: Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis

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 503 observations and 9 variables:

• ab
  Antibiotic 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 13, 12, or 11

Details

Like all data sets in this package, this data set is publicly available for download in the following formats: R, MS Excel, Apache Feather, Apache Parquet, SPSS, and Stata. Please visit our website for the download links. The actual files are of course available on our GitHub repository.

Examples

dosage

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