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Burden of nosocomial infections in intensive care units: Cost of antibiotics, the extra length of stay and mortality rate [PDF]

Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients significantly complicate the normal hospitalization process and affect patients’ condition, length of hospitalization, mortality, and treatment cost. In this study,
Masoome Zolfaghari, Arash Seifi, Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan, Zahra Jahangard-Rafsanjani, Shirin Afhami, Mostafa Mohammadi, Mohammad Masoud Emami Meybodi, Mohammadreza Salehi, Esmaeil Mohammadnejad   +8 more
doaj  

Prevalence and risk factors of self-medication with antibiotics in the general population of Tehran—a population-based study

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background Given the ongoing global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), largely fueled by self-medication with antibiotics (SMA), this study offers important insights from southern Tehran—an underrepresented region in national data—regarding the ...
Keyvan Karimi, Yosra Azizpour, Maryam Shafaati, Erta Rajabi, Maryam Zare, Arash Seifi, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Samaneh Akbarpour, Mahnaz Khalafehnilsaz   +8 more
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Use of VetCompass Australia data to estimate body weight for antimicrobial stewardship in Australian dogs

Australian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Evaluation of the appropriateness of antimicrobial use requires multiple data elements, including the indication for treatment, duration of therapy and dose of the drug used. To calculate the dose the volume of active ingredient and animal weight are required.
L Hardefeldt, K Li, K Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

Acting on the Voicelessness Challenge to Democratic Deliberation: A Six‐Actor Framework

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political philosophers have long recognized that key stakeholders in policy decisions—children, future generations, nonhuman animals, and individuals with severe cognitive impairments—are structurally unable to participate in the deliberative processes meant to legitimate those decisions.
Julian C. Jamison
wiley   +1 more source

Antibiotic stewardship [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2013
openaire   +2 more sources

The National Allergy Centre of Excellence–Addressing Australia's Allergy Burden

Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.
Australia's high allergy burden prompted a national response, leading to the establishment of the National Allergy Centre of Excellence (NACE) in 2022. The NACE has advanced research infrastructure, collaboration, and consumer‐centred care through four pillars, achieving global recognition and accelerating translation into policy, practice, and ...
A. Young, J. J. Koplin, D. E. Campbell, J. M. Davies, H. Edmund, T. Jamieson, C. J. Hornung, T. O'Farrell, D. West, E. Kayes, L. A. Gray, R. L. Peters, L. Gamble, K. Gwynne, J. Lee, M. Lucas, C. H. Katelaris, M. D. O'Sullivan, D. J. Palmer, J. Trubiano, S. van Nunen, S. L. Vale, T. Wanandy, K. P. Perrett   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANTIBIOTICS STEWARDSHIP

Inappropriate antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance are now major global issues. Antimicrobial stewardship programmes are increasingly being used to optimize antibiotic prescribing in acute care. Antibiotic resistance has become a global menace.
Bongirwar Nidhi*, Dr. Chandrasekhara Rao Baru, Paravthi Bhaskar, Talluri Sritanya, Mohammad Uzair Ghori, Sadiya Fatima   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Optimising antibiotic stewardship in suspected ICU acquired pneumonia in two large intensive care units: a prospective audit

, 2015
Optimising antibiotic stewardship in suspected ICU acquired pneumonia in two large intensive care units: a prospective ...
Wojcik, G, Craven, T H, Walsh, T S
core  

It's not “just aging”: Reframing postmenopausal urological dysfunction in primary care

UroPrecision, EarlyView.
Maya Aldeeb, Ibrahim A. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

Cystic Fibrosis and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Reprogramming of the Intestinal Epithelial Niche and Cell‐State Plasticity in the CFTR Modulator Era

Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.
In cystic fibrosis disorder, CFTR dysfunction drives multilayered intestinal niche disruption, including dysbiosis, inflammation, hypoxia, metabolic stress and genotoxic injury, promoting cell‐state plasticity and a pre‐neoplastic ecosystem. CFTR modulators and environmental factors may partially reshape these processes, highlighting opportunities for ...
Bala Umashankar, Ines Pankonien, Margarida Amaral, Chee Y. Ooi, Thierry Jardé, Shafagh A. Waters   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source