• Bongyoung Kim, Young Kyung Yoon, Dong Sook Kim, Su Jin Jeong, Song Vogue Ahn, Sun Hee Park, Ki Tae Kwon, Hong Bin Kim, Yoon Soo Park, Shin Woo Kim, Sungmin Kiem, Jun Yong Choi, Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, and Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2020 Aug 3; 35 (30): e241.

AbstractIn 2019, a project designed to develop a system for measuring and comparing antibiotic usage in hospitals was launched in Korea. As part of this project, we developed a means to classify antibiotic usage in Korean hospitals using a modified Delphi method. In results, the following categories of antibiotic classification were accepted for use in Korean hospitals: 1) broad-spectrum antibacterial agents predominantly used for hospital-onset infections in adults, 2) broad-spectrum antibacterial agents predominantly used for community-acquired infections in adults, 3) antibacterial agents predominantly used for resistant gram-positive infections in adults, 4) narrow-spectrum beta-lactam agents in adults, 5) antibacterial agents predominantly used for extensive antibiotic resistant gram-negative bacteria in adults, and 6) total antibacterial agents.© 2020 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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