Benefit Associated with Appropriate Antibiotic Treatment

Benefit associated with appropriate antibiotic treatment.

Clinical importance of delays in the initiation of appropriate antibiotic treatment for ventilator-associated pneumonia.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the influence of initially delayed appropriate antibiotic treatment (IDAAT) on the outcomes of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). SETTING Medical ICU of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, a university-affiliated urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS One hundred seven consecutive patients receiving mechanical ventilation and antibiotic treatment fo...

Ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis: pre-emptive, appropriate antibiotic therapy recommended

Nseir and colleagues presented data from a large multicenter study of patients with ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT), demonstrating that appropriate antibiotic therapy for VAT was an independent predictor for reducing transition to pneumonia (ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP). These data added to the growing evidence supporting the use of appropriate antibiotic therapy for V...

The Impact of Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing on Treatment Evaluation Parameters

The therapeutic impact of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is debatable, particularly in situations where infections are treated empirically with multiply prescribed antibiotics. Prescribers may remain under the illusion that such prescriptions are appropriate on the basis of any observed positive treatment outcomes, even though an antibiotic prescribed in such combination therapy may a...

Propensity-matched analysis of appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment.

Correspondence Table 1. Multivariate model for inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment containing all variables in the regression model.