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Katie J. Suda, Geneva M. Wilson, Ursula C. Patel, Alfredo Traversa, Linda Poggensee, Charlesnika T. Evans, Margaret A. Fitzpatrick
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 44:674-677
We assessed trends in treatment of patients with CRE from 2012 through 2018. We detected decreased utilization of aminoglycosides and colistin and increased utilization in extended-spectrum cephalosporins and ceftazidime-avibactam. We found significa
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Howard W. Wiener, Rachael A Lee, Yuanfan Ye, Sadeep Shrestha, Matthew L Brown, Russell Griffin, Adeniyi J. Idigo, Amrita Mukherjee, Allen W. Bryan
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 43:848-859
Objective:We observed an overall increase in the use of third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins after fluoroquinolone preauthorization was implemented. We examined the change in specific third- and fourth-generation cephalosporin use, and we soug
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 43:829-833
Objective:To determine the impact of a documented penicillin or cephalosporin allergy on the development of surgical site infections (SSIs).Background:Appropriate preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis reduces SSI risk, but documented antibiotic allergi
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Federico Perez, Robin L.P. Jump, Brigid Wilson, Sunah Song, Robert A. Bonomo, Ukwen Akpoji, Taissa Bej, Robbie Lee Anne. Christian, Sharanie Sims
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 43:589-596
Objective:We examined the impact of microbiological results from respiratory samples on choice of antibiotic therapy in patients treated for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).Design:Four-year retrospective stu
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Sujan C Reddy, Sophia Kazakova, John A. Jernigan, L. Clifford McDonald, James Baggs, Alice Guh, Sarah H Yi, Kelly M Hatfield
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 43:1067-1069
Previously reported associations between hospital-level antibiotic use and hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) were reexamined using 2012–2018 data from a new cohort of US acute-care hospitals. This analysis revealed signific
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Quynh T Vo, Kerri Barton, Melissa Cumming, Alfred DeMaria, Barbara Bolstorff, T. Scott Troppy, R. Monina Klevens, Jennifer Blumenthal, Joseph M Gerth
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 42:169-175
Background:Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent public health threat. Identifying trends in antimicrobial susceptibility can inform public health policy at the state and local levels.Objective:To determine the ability of statewide antibiogram aggreg
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Hayden T. Schwenk, Matthew P. Kronman, Jason G. Newland, Lourdes Eguiguren, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Adam L. Hersh, Grace M. Lee
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 41:1279-1284
Objective:To characterize the current state of antifungal stewardship practices and perceptions of antifungal use among pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs).Design:We developed and distributed an electronic survey, which included 17 cl
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 41:641-644
Objective:To determine the prevalence of antibiotic allergy labels (AALs) in Australian aged care residents and to describe the impact of labels on antibiotic prescribing practices.Design:Point-prevalence survey.Setting:Australian residential aged ca
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Richa Aggarwal, Padmini Srikantiah, Anoop Velayudhan, Sushma Sagar, Purva Mathur, Manigandan Venkatesan, Rajesh Malhotra, Subodh Kumar, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Surbhi Khurana, Valan Siromany, Neil Gupta, Omika Katoch, Aditya Sharma, Neha Rastogi, Kapil Dev Soni, Tom J. B. de Man, Amit Gupta, Ayyan Raj Neeravi, Kayla F. Laserson, Joseph D. Lutgring, Paul Malpiedi
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 40:1387-1393
Objective:Resistance to colistin, a last resort antibiotic, has emerged in India. We investigated colistin-resistantKlebsiella pneumoniae(ColR-KP) in a hospital in India to describe infections, characterize resistance of isolates, compare concordance
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Chiagozie I. Pickens, Helen K. Donnelly, Joseph Paonessa, Richard G. Wunderink, Chao Qi, Michael Postelnick
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 42:1385-1387
Vancomycin overuse is common, yet few data are available regarding how to improve stewardship of this antibiotic. We identify an association between use of a PCR assay to rule out MRSA pneumonia and a significant, sustained decrease in average vancom