نتایج جستجو برای: antibiotic stewardship

تعداد نتایج: 86753  

Journal: :Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2017
Nneka I Nzegwu Michelle R Rychalsky Loren A Nallu Xuemei Song Yanhong Deng Amber M Natusch Robert S Baltimore George R Paci Matthew J Bizzarro

OBJECTIVE To evaluate antimicrobial utilization and prescription practices in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP). DESIGN Quasi-experimental, interrupted time-series study. SETTING A 54-bed, level IV NICU in a regional academic and tertiary referral center. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS All neonates prescribed antimicrobials from ...

2017
Burke A. Cunha John Gian Natalie C. Klein

We present a case of severe adenoviral pneumonia in a 20-year-old immunocompetent host with persistently high fevers. The patient was needlessly given multiple empiric antibiotics for non-existent bacterial co-infection. This case has important antibiotic stewardship lessons for practitioners in approaching fevers in the ICU.

2017
Guillermo V Sanchez Daniel J Shapiro Adam L Hersh Lauri A Hicks Katherine E Fleming-Dutra

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data were used to assess outpatient macrolide prescribing and selection. Conditions for which macrolides are firstline therapy represented 5% of macrolide prescribing. Family practitioners selected macrolides for children more frequently than pediatricians. Macrolides are an important antibiotic stewardship target.

2015
Rachel B. Slayton Damon Toth Bruce Y. Lee Windy Tanner Sarah M. Bartsch Karim Khader Kim Wong Kevin Brown James A. McKinnell William Ray Loren G. Miller Michael Rubin Diane S. Kim Fred Adler Chenghua Cao Lacey Avery Nathan T.B. Stone Alexander Kallen Matthew Samore Susan S. Huang Scott Fridkin John A. Jernigan

BACKGROUND Treatments for health care-associated infections (HAIs) caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Clostridium difficile are limited, and some patients have developed untreatable infections. Evidence-supported interventions are available, but coordinated approaches to interrupt the spread of HAIs could have a greater impact on reversing the increasing incidence of these infections t...

2015
Lauren Messmer Bernie Love Eoghan O'Neill

Background Assessment of antibiotic prescribing is an important component of antimicrobial stewardship for the prevention of the misuse of antibiotics [1]. The aim of this study was to assess the prescribed antibiotics given to patients admitted through the Emergency Department (ED) of Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown (CHB) for compliance with the current CHB Guidelines for the use of Antibioti...

Journal: :International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2021

Abstract Background In April 2017, the Central Denmark Region Antibiotic Stewardship Committee issued a directive to reduce general use of piperacillin-tazobactam and prescribe narrow-spectrum antibiotics for mild moderate pneumonia. The was distributed all regional hospital clinicians. Methods Electronic medical records were used obtain de-identified details administered (together with diagnos...

2016
Baek Nam Kim Hong Bin Kim Myoung Don Oh

Antibiotic stewardship is a key strategy for limiting antibiotic resistance. Over the last decade the South Korean government has implemented a series of healthcare policies directed to this end, consisting of legislative separation of drug prescribing and dispensing, antibiotic utilization reviews, healthcare quality assessment, and public reporting. As a result, the proportion of antibiotic p...

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