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Data Set with Treatment Dosages as Defined by EUCAST

Source: R/data.R
dosage.Rd

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 169 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 agent 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

Details

This data set is based on 'EUCAST Clinical Breakpoint Tables' v11.0 (2021).

Direct download

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, SAS, and Stata. Please visit our website for the download links. The actual files are of course available on our GitHub repository.

Examples

dosage
#> # A tibble: 169 × 9
#>    ab   name                   type  dose  dose_…¹ admin…² notes origi…³ eucas…⁴
#>    <ab> <chr>                  <chr> <chr>   <int> <chr>   <chr> <chr>     <dbl>
#>  1 AMK  Amikacin               stan… 25-3…       1 iv      ""    25-30 …      11
#>  2 AMX  Amoxicillin            high… 2 g         6 iv      ""    2 g x …      11
#>  3 AMX  Amoxicillin            stan… 1 g         3 iv      ""    1 g x …      11
#>  4 AMX  Amoxicillin            high… 0.75…       3 oral    ""    0.75-1…      11
#>  5 AMX  Amoxicillin            stan… 0.5 g       3 oral    ""    0.5 g …      11
#>  6 AMX  Amoxicillin            unco… 0.5 g       3 oral    ""    0.5 g …      11
#>  7 AMC  Amoxicillin/clavulani… high… 2 g …       3 iv      ""    (2 g a…      11
#>  8 AMC  Amoxicillin/clavulani… stan… 1 g …       3 iv      ""    (1 g a…      11
#>  9 AMC  Amoxicillin/clavulani… high… 0.87…       3 oral    ""    (0.875…      11
#> 10 AMC  Amoxicillin/clavulani… stan… 0.5 …       3 oral    ""    (0.5 g…      11
#> # … with 159 more rows, and abbreviated variable names ¹​dose_times,
#> #   ²​administration, ³​original_txt, ⁴​eucast_version