\item Bielicki JA \emph{et al.} (2016). \strong{Selecting appropriate empirical antibiotic regimens for paediatric bloodstream infections: application of a Bayesian decision model to local and pooled antimicrobial resistance surveillance data} \emph{Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy} 71(3); \doi{10.1093/jac/dkv397}
\item Bielicki JA \emph{et al.} (2020). \strong{Evaluation of the coverage of 3 antibiotic regimens for neonatal sepsis in the hospital setting across Asian countries} \emph{JAMA Netw Open.} 3(2):e1921124; \doi{10.1001.jamanetworkopen.2019.21124}
\item Klinker KP \emph{et al.} (2021). \strong{Antimicrobial stewardship and antibiograms: importance of moving beyond traditional antibiograms}. \emph{Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease}, May 5;8:20499361211011373; \doi{10.1177/20499361211011373}
\item Barbieri E \emph{et al.} (2021). \strong{Development of a Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Combination Antibiogram (WISCA) to guide the choice of the empiric antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infection in paediatric patients: a Bayesian approach} \emph{Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control} May 1;10(1):74; \doi{10.1186/s13756-021-00939-2}
\item \strong{M39 Analysis and Presentation of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data, 5th Edition}, 2022, \emph{Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)}. \url{https://clsi.org/standards/products/microbiology/documents/m39/}.
\item{x}{a \link{data.frame} containing at least a column with microorganisms and columns with antimicrobial results (class 'sir', see \code{\link[=as.sir]{as.sir()}})}
\item{antibiotics}{vector of any antimicrobial name or code (will be evaluated with \code{\link[=as.ab]{as.ab()}}, column name of \code{x}, or (any combinations of) \link[=antimicrobial_class_selectors]{antimicrobial selectors} such as \code{\link[=aminoglycosides]{aminoglycosides()}} or \code{\link[=carbapenems]{carbapenems()}}. For combination antibiograms, this can also be set to values separated with \code{"+"}, such as "TZP+TOB" or "cipro + genta", given that columns resembling such antimicrobials exist in \code{x}. See \emph{Examples}.}
\item{mo_transform}{a character to transform microorganism input - must be \code{"name"}, \code{"shortname"} (default), \code{"gramstain"}, or one of the column names of the \link{microorganisms} data set: "mo", "fullname", "status", "kingdom", "phylum", "class", "order", "family", "genus", "species", "subspecies", "rank", "ref", "oxygen_tolerance", "source", "lpsn", "lpsn_parent", "lpsn_renamed_to", "mycobank", "mycobank_parent", "mycobank_renamed_to", "gbif", "gbif_parent", "gbif_renamed_to", "prevalence", or "snomed". Can also be \code{NULL} to not transform the input.}
\item{ab_transform}{a character to transform antimicrobial input - must be one of the column names of the \link{antibiotics} data set (defaults to \code{"name"}): "ab", "cid", "name", "group", "atc", "atc_group1", "atc_group2", "abbreviations", "synonyms", "oral_ddd", "oral_units", "iv_ddd", "iv_units", or "loinc". Can also be \code{NULL} to not transform the input.}
\item{syndromic_group}{a column name of \code{x}, or values calculated to split rows of \code{x}, e.g. by using \code{\link[=ifelse]{ifelse()}} or \code{\link[dplyr:case_when]{case_when()}}. See \emph{Examples}.}
\item{add_total_n}{a \link{logical} to indicate whether total available numbers per pathogen should be added to the table (default is \code{TRUE}). This will add the lowest and highest number of available isolates per antimicrobial (e.g, if for \emph{E. coli} 200 isolates are available for ciprofloxacin and 150 for amoxicillin, the returned number will be "150-200").}
\item{only_all_tested}{(for combination antibiograms): a \link{logical} to indicate that isolates must be tested for all antimicrobials, see \emph{Details}}
\item{formatting_type}{numeric value (1–22 for WISCA, 1-12 for non-WISCA) indicating how the 'cells' of the antibiogram table should be formatted. See \emph{Details} > \emph{Formatting Type} for a list of options.}
\item{col_mo}{column name of the names or codes of the microorganisms (see \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}}) - the default is the first column of class \code{\link{mo}}. Values will be coerced using \code{\link[=as.mo]{as.mo()}}.}
\item{language}{language to translate text, which defaults to the system language (see \code{\link[=get_AMR_locale]{get_AMR_locale()}})}
\item{minimum}{the minimum allowed number of available (tested) isolates. Any isolate count lower than \code{minimum} will return \code{NA} with a warning. The default number of \code{30} isolates is advised by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) as best practice, see \emph{Source}.}
\item{combine_SI}{a \link{logical} to indicate whether all susceptibility should be determined by results of either S, SDD, or I, instead of only S (default is \code{TRUE})}
\item{sep}{a separating character for antimicrobial columns in combination antibiograms}
\item{wisca}{a \link{logical} to indicate whether a Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Combination Antibiogram (WISCA) must be generated (default is \code{FALSE}). This will use a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate regimen coverage probabilities using Montecarlo simulations. Set \code{simulations} to adjust.}
\item{simulations}{(for WISCA) a numerical value to set the number of Montecarlo simulations}
\item{conf_interval}{(for WISCA) a numerical value to set confidence interval (default is \code{0.95})}
\item{interval_side}{(for WISCA) the side of the confidence interval, either \code{"two-tailed"} (default), \code{"left"} or \code{"right"}}
\item{...}{when used in \link[knitr:kable]{R Markdown or Quarto}: arguments passed on to \code{\link[knitr:kable]{knitr::kable()}} (otherwise, has no use)}
\item{italicise}{a \link{logical} to indicate whether the microorganism names in the \link[knitr:kable]{knitr} table should be made italic, using \code{\link[=italicise_taxonomy]{italicise_taxonomy()}}.}
Create detailed antibiograms with options for traditional, combination, syndromic, and Bayesian WISCA methods.
Adhering to previously described approaches (see \emph{Source}) and especially the Bayesian WISCA model (Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Combination Antibiogram) by Bielicki \emph{et al.}, these functions provides flexible output formats including plots and tables, ideal for integration with R Markdown and Quarto reports.
This function returns a table with values between 0 and 100 for \emph{susceptibility}, not resistance.
\strong{Remember that you should filter your data to let it contain only first isolates!} This is needed to exclude duplicates and to reduce selection bias. Use \code{\link[=first_isolate]{first_isolate()}} to determine them in your data set with one of the four available algorithms.
For estimating antimicrobial coverage, especially when creating a WISCA, the outcome might become more reliable by only including the top \emph{n} species encountered in the data. You can filter on this top \emph{n} using \code{\link[=top_n_microorganisms]{top_n_microorganisms()}}. For example, use \code{top_n_microorganisms(your_data, n = 10)} as a pre-processing step to only include the top 10 species in the data.
The numeric values of an antibiogram are stored in a long format as the \link[=attributes]{attribute} \code{long_numeric}. You can retrieve them using \code{attributes(x)$long_numeric}, where \code{x} is the outcome of \code{\link[=antibiogram]{antibiogram()}} or \code{\link[=wisca]{wisca()}}. This is ideal for e.g. advanced plotting.
The formatting of the 'cells' of the table can be set with the argument \code{formatting_type}. In these examples, \code{5} is the susceptibility percentage (for WISCA: \code{4-6} indicates the confidence level), \code{15} the numerator, and \code{300} the denominator:
The default is \code{18} for WISCA and \code{10} for non-WISCA, which can be set globally with the package option \code{\link[=AMR-options]{AMR_antibiogram_formatting_type}}, e.g. \code{options(AMR_antibiogram_formatting_type = 5)}.
There are various antibiogram types, as summarised by Klinker \emph{et al.} (2021, \doi{10.1177/20499361211011373}), and they are all supported by \code{\link[=antibiogram]{antibiogram()}}.
\strong{Use WISCA whenever possible}, since it provides more precise coverage estimates by accounting for pathogen incidence and antimicrobial susceptibility, as has been shown by Bielicki \emph{et al.} (2020, \doi{10.1001.jamanetworkopen.2019.21124}). See the section \emph{Why Use WISCA?} on this page.
WISCA uses a sophisticated Bayesian decision model to combine both local and pooled antimicrobial resistance data. This approach not only evaluates local patterns but can also draw on multi-centre datasets to improve regimen accuracy, even in low-incidence infections like paediatric bloodstream infections (BSIs).
Note that for types 2 and 3 (Combination Antibiogram and Syndromic Antibiogram), it is important to realise that susceptibility can be calculated in two ways, which can be set with the \code{only_all_tested} argument (default is \code{FALSE}). See this example for two antimicrobials, Drug A and Drug B, about how \code{\link[=antibiogram]{antibiogram()}} works to calculate the \%SI:
All types of antibiograms as listed above can be plotted (using \code{\link[ggplot2:autoplot]{ggplot2::autoplot()}} or base \R's \code{\link[=plot]{plot()}} and \code{\link[=barplot]{barplot()}}).
THe outcome of \code{\link[=antibiogram]{antibiogram()}} can also be used directly in R Markdown / Quarto (i.e., \code{knitr}) for reports. In this case, \code{\link[knitr:kable]{knitr::kable()}} will be applied automatically and microorganism names will even be printed in italics at default (see argument \code{italicise}).
You can also use functions from specific 'table reporting' packages to transform the output of \code{\link[=antibiogram]{antibiogram()}} to your needs, e.g. with \code{flextable::as_flextable()} or \code{gt::gt()}.
