نتایج جستجو برای: appropriate antibiotic use

تعداد نتایج: 2015303  

Journal: :Surgical infections 2005
Paul St Jacques Neal Sanders Nimesh Patel Thomas R Talbot Jayant K Deshpande Michael Higgins

BACKGROUND Timely prophylactic antibiotic administration aids in preventing postoperative superficial surgical site infections. However, during lengthy surgical procedures, redosing of prophylactic antibiotics may be unintentionally omitted. We assessed the utility of a computerized reminder as part of the anesthesia charting system to increase the rate of timely intraoperative prophylactic ant...

Journal: :The journal of spinal cord medicine 2011
Charlesnika T Evans Thea J Rogers Frances M Weaver Stephen P Burns

CONTEXT Persons with spinal cord injury or disorder (SCI/D) are at increased risk for antibiotic resistance because of recurrent infections and subsequent use of antibiotics. However, there are no studies focused on providers who care for these patients and their perceptions regarding antibiotic use and resistance. OBJECTIVE To characterize SCI/D provider behavior and attitudes about antibiot...

2014
Andy Wales

Is an antibiotic needed? Many diseases are not a result of bacterial infection and, especially when not severe, do not need antibiotics to manage them. Relevant examples include mild calf scours and outbreaks of coughing without other signs among growing cattle. Even in more severe cases of scour and pneumonia, the effect of antibiotics may be to protect the animal from secondary infection rath...

Journal: :Journal of chronic diseases 1987
B Foxman R B Valdez K N Lohr G A Goldberg J P Newhouse R H Brook

Little is known about how generosity of insurance and population characteristics affect quantity or appropriateness of antibiotic use. Using insurance claims for antibiotics from 5765 non-elderly people who lived in six sites in the United States and were randomly assigned to insurance plans varying by level of cost-sharing, we describe how antibiotic use varies by insurance plan, diagnosis and...

Journal: :Journal of clinical microbiology 2010
J C Lindow F Poly D R Tribble P Guerry M P Carmolli S Baqar C K Porter K K Pierce M J Darsley K S Sadigh E A Dill B D Kirkpatrick

We report the first instance of macrolide resistance developing in vivo following appropriate antibiotic use in a healthy volunteer as a part of a controlled human infection with Campylobacter jejuni. In vivo development of macrolide resistance may be an important contributor to antibiotic resistance in C. jejuni.

Journal: :Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2015

Journal: :Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2015
Laura W van Buul Ruth B Veenhuizen Wilco P Achterberg François G Schellevis Rob T G M Essink Sabine C de Greeff Stephanie Natsch Jenny T van der Steen Cees M P M Hertogh

OBJECTIVE To investigate the appropriateness of decisions to prescribe or withhold antibiotics for nursing home (NH) residents with infections of the urinary tract (UTI), respiratory tract (RTI), and skin (SI). DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Ten NHs in the central-west region of the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Physicians providing medical care to NH residents. MEASUREMENTS Physicians c...

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