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Title: Application of mixed-effects models to study the country-specific outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: a tutorial on longitudinal data analysis
Authors: AYELE, Girma 
AERTS, Marc 
Coenen, Samuel
Versporten, Ann
Muller, Arno
Adriaenssens, Niels
Beutels, Philippe
MOLENBERGHS, Geert 
Goossens, Herman
HENS, Niel 
Issue Date: 2011
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Source: JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY, 66, p. VI79-VI87
Abstract: Resistance to antibiotics is a major public health problem and antibiotic use is being increasingly recognized as the main selective pressure driving this resistance. Yearly and quarterly data on outpatient antibiotic use were collected by the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) project for the period 1997-2009 from 33 and 27 European countries, respectively, and expressed in defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day. Since repeated measures were taken for the countries, correlation has to be taken into account when analysing the data. This paper illustrates the application of mixed-effects models to the study of country-specific outpatient antibiotic use in Europe. Mixed models are useful in a wide variety of disciplines in the biomedical, physical and social sciences. In this application for outpatient antibiotic use, the linear mixed model is extended to a non-linear mixed model, allowing analysis of seasonal variation on top of a global trend, with country-specific effects for global mean use and amplitude, and trends over time in use and in amplitude.
Notes: [Minalu, Girma; Aerts, Marc; Molenberghs, Geert; Hens, Niel] Univ Hasselt, Interuniv Inst Biostat & Stat Bioinformat I BIOST, Hasselt, Belgium. [Coenen, Samuel; Adriaenssens, Niels] Univ Antwerp, Ctr Gen Practice, Vaccine & Infect Dis Inst VAXINFECTIO, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [Coenen, Samuel; Versporten, Ann; Muller, Arno; Adriaenssens, Niels; Goossens, Herman] Univ Antwerp, Lab Med Microbiol, Vaccine & Infect Dis Inst VAXINFECTIO, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [Beutels, Philippe; Hens, Niel] Univ Antwerp, CHERMID, Vaccine & Infect Dis Inst VAXINFECTIO, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [Molenberghs, Geert] Catholic Univ Louvain, Interuniv Inst Biostat & Stat Bioinformat I BIOST, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium. girma.minaluayele@uhasselt.be
Keywords: linear mixed models; non-linear mixed models; antibiotic use; ambulatory care; seasonal variation;linear mixed models; non-linear mixed models; antibiotic use; ambulatory care; seasonal variation
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/12907
ISSN: 0305-7453
e-ISSN: 1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr460
ISI #: 000297228400009
Rights: (C) The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved.
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2012
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