BMC Pediatrics, 2012 Background Antibiotic surveillance is mandatory to optimise antibiotic therapy. Our objectives were to evaluate antibiotic use in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to implement a simple achievable intervention aimed at improving antibiotic ...
Stocker Martin +5 more
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Influence of real-world characteristics on outcomes for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal skin and soft tissue infections:a multi-country medical chart review in Europe [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Patient-related (demographic/disease) and treatment-related (drug/clinician/hospital) characteristics were evaluated as potential predictors of healthcare resource use and opportunities for early switch (ES) from intravenous (IV)-to-oral ...
A Gray +35 more
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Duration of Initial Empirical Antibiotic Therapy and Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Pediatrics, 2019 Prolonged antibiotic use in the first week of life among VLBW infants and without culture-proven sepsis is associated with adverse neonatal outcomes.
J. Ting +8 more
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Transitional Antibiotic Therapy
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1995 With all the fiscal restraints in healthcare systems. it is crucial to develop methods to treat infections that are both clinically sound and cost-effective. Of the various options available.
Richard Quintiliani +2 more
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Rational Antibiotic Use: How Much Can Duration of Antibiotic Therapy Be Shortened?
Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2018 Infectious diseases are conditions with significant consequences in terms of public health while associated mortality, morbidity, and complications can be prevented.
Gürdal YILMAZ +2 more
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Outbreak of Aeromonas hydrophila wound infections association with mud football [PDF]
, 2004 On 16 February 2002, a total of 26 people presented to the emergency department of the local hospital in the rural town of Collie in southwest Western Australia with many infected scratches and pustules distributed over their bodies.
Amanda Whittle +16 more
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Tracking global trends in the effectiveness of antibiotic therapy using the Drug Resistance Index
BMJ Global Health, 2019 Background Evaluating trends in antibiotic resistance and communicating the results to a broad audience are important for dealing with this global threat.
E. Klein +3 more
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Emerging nanobiomaterials against bacterial infections in postantibiotic era
View, 2020 Although numerous antibiotics have been developed and applied in clinic, bacterial infections are still serious threats to human health, due to the rapidly growing antibiotic resistance all over the world.
Dengfeng Hu +4 more
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Duration of Antibiotic Therapy: Shorter Is Better
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2019 Society continues to face a crisis of antibiotic resistance, caused largely by the unabated overuse of antibiotics. The emergence of antibiotic resistance is the result of natural selection: Prescribing more antibiotics causes more selective pressure ...
B. Spellberg, L. Rice
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Short Course Antibiotic Therapy-Replacing Constantine Units with "Shorter Is Better".
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019 1476 • cid 2019:69 (1 November) • EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Received 6 December 2018; editorial decision 20 December 2018; accepted 28 December 2018; published online January 7, 2019. Correspondence: B.
Noah Wald-Dickler, B. Spellberg
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