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A systematic scoping review of metrics utilized to measure antibiotic consumption in hospital settings

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs were introduced to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials and to combat antimicrobial resistance. Quantifying antibiotic consumption is an important part of AMS initiatives to achieve these objectives.
Marjan Kandimahforoujaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODERN ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPY IN HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

open access: yesМедицинский совет, 2017
Hospital-acquired pneumonia terminologically unites all types of pneumonia that arise in hospitalized patients: pneumonia in patients beyond artificial lungs ventilation (hospital pneumonia, medical aid-associated pneumonia) and hospital acquired ...
V. B. Beloborodov, V. A. Sinikin
doaj   +1 more source

The integration of the British Pharmacological Society's prescription safety assessment into the WHO 6‐step model of rational pharmacotherapy in a Turkish medical school

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims At Koç University School of Medicine, a one‐week rational pharmacotherapy (RPHM) programme, modelled after WHO 6‐step, has been introduced in the fourth‐year curriculum to improve prescription skills. For efficient problem‐based learning (PBL) sessions on a prespecified topic, students need to brush up on basic pharmacology knowledge, so we ...
Sinem Ezgi Gülmez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serotypes and antibiotic susceptibility of isolated from hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia in Italy

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Background: Pneumonia remain an important public health problem. The primary objective was to determine the proportion of community-acquired pneumonia that is attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection; secondary objectives were the description ...
Marta Di Pasquale   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pneumonia severity index compared to CURB-65 in predicting the outcome of community acquired pneumonia among patients referred to an Iranian emergency department: a prospective survey

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013
Objective: To compare the prognostic value of the pneumonia severity index and the severity score for community-acquired pneumonia (CURB-65) in predicting mortality and the need for ICU admission of patients with community-acquired pneumonia referred to ...
Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical pharmacology and prescribing education: An updated medical school curriculum from the British Pharmacological Society

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Prescribing is a complex, essential skill that doctors must acquire to practice medicine safely and effectively. The British Pharmacological Society has historically provided a core curriculum to guide clinical pharmacology and prescribing education in UK medical schools.
Dagan O. Lonsdale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influenza is more common than Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) among hospitalized adult Saudi patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background Since the initial description of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), we adopted a systematic process of screening patients admitted with community acquired pneumonia.
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Community acquired pneumonia [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2001
We live in an era when medical practice is increasingly regulated by guidelines and protocols. Ideally, such guidance should be evidence based, and in particular it is generally recommended that advice on medical treatment should be based on the results of adequately powered, double blind, placebo controlled trials or, some would say, better still, a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

An Investigation of Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in a Modern Anatomical Body Donor Population

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research sought to examine the prevalence and severity of hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) in the Chicagoland anatomical body donor population. The study further aimed to elucidate potential demographic risk factors for HFI, including sex, age at death, and structural vulnerability index (SVI), as well as any common comorbidities, as ...
Amy C. Beresheim, Amanda Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Pneumonia acquired in the Community

open access: yesMedisur, 2007
A bibliographical revision of the main aspects in the diagnosis and treatment of the patients suffering from pneumonia acquired in the community is carried out.
María Caridad Fragoso Marchante   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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