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Publikováno v:
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, Vol 4 (2024)
We describe our experience with intravenous amoxicillin-clavulanate, which is new to the Canadian market. The majority of patients were successfully de-escalated from piperacillin-tazobactam or a carbapenem for respiratory infections or skin and soft
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/5db97c7c4fef4b5285b1996caa50cb34
Publikováno v:
BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
Abstract Background Literature is scarce regarding oral step down to beta-lactams in bacteremic urinary tract infections. Oral fluoroquinolones are an accepted and common step down for bacteremic urinary tract infections; however, their use is associ
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c902a2faff50469995910fa013dac831
Autor:
Charles Frenette, David Sperlea, Greg J. German, Kevin Afra, Jennifer Boswell, Sandra Chang, Herman Goossens, Jennifer Grant, Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Allison McGeer, Dominic Mertz, Michelle Science, Ann Versporten, Daniel J. G. Thirion
Publikováno v:
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
Abstract Background Patient-level surveillance (indication, appropriate choice, dosing, route, duration) of antimicrobial use in Canadian hospitals is needed to reduce antimicrobial overuse and misuse. Patient-level surveillance has not been performe
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/b30dc6580ad1441abd00d6aed1a8ddbc
Autor:
Daniel J. Niven, Kevin Afra, Mircea Iftinca, Raymond Tellier, Kevin Fonseca, Andreas Kramer, David Safronetz, Kimberly Holloway, Michael Drebot, Andrew S. Johnson
Publikováno v:
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 23, Iss 2, Pp 280-283 (2017)
Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV), a flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis serogroup, can cause severe clinical manifestations in humans. We report a fatal case of MVEV infection in a young woman who returned from Australia to Canad
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/79842e1c46d645c8b39d44f3e264849e
Autor:
Greg J. German, Charles Frenette, Jean-Alexandre Caissy, Jennifer Grant, Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Dominik Mertz, Sarah Lutes, Allison McGeer, Jacqueline Roberts, Kevin Afra, Louis Valiquette, Yannick Émond, Marie Carrier, Anaïs Lauzon-Laurin, Trong Tien Nguyen, Hamed Al-Bachari, Justin Kosar, Shaqil Peermohamed, Michelle Science, Daniel Landry, Timothy MacLaggan, Peter Daley, Gerald McDonald, Anita Ang, Sandra Chang, Yu-Chen Lin, Brandon Tong, Suzanne Malfair, Victor Leung, Kevin Katz, Ines Pauwels, Herman Goossens, Ann Versporten, John Conly, Daniel J.G. Thirion
Publikováno v:
CMAJ Open
Background: Patient-level surveillance of antimicrobial use (AMU) in Canadian hospitals empowers the reduction of inappropriate AMU and was piloted in 2017 among 14 hospitals in Canada. We aimed to describe AMU on the basis of patient-level data in C
Publikováno v:
Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9
Background Up to 50% of inpatient antibiotic use may be inappropriate, and guideline concordance for antibiotic prescribing in surgical wards tends to be lower than medical wards. As such, our study describes a multi-pronged approach to antimicrobial
Publikováno v:
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine. 11(1)
Publikováno v:
Hosp Pharm
Background: Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health. Antimicrobial stewardship programs need to identify inappropriate antibiotic use patterns and offer practical recommendations to prescribers and instituti
Autor:
Dominic Mertz, Allison McGeer, Jennifer Boswell, Herman Goossens, Charles Frenette, Daniel J. G. Thirion, Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Jennifer M. Grant, Greg J. German, Sandra Chang, Ann Versporten, Kevin Afra, David Sperlea
Publikováno v:
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Antimicrobial resistance & infection control
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Antimicrobial resistance & infection control
Background Patient-level surveillance (indication, appropriate choice, dosing, route, duration) of antimicrobial use in Canadian hospitals is needed to reduce antimicrobial overuse and misuse. Patient-level surveillance has not been performed on a na
Autor:
Agnes Y. Y. Lee, Muntadhar Al Moosawi, Erica A. Peterson, Rita K. McCracken, Steven K. W. Wong, Hamish Nicolson, Vicky Chan, Tyler Smith, Michelle P. Wong, Lauren J. Lee, Cameron Griffiths, Bhavdeep Rahal, Stephen Parkin, Kevin Afra, Kimberley Ambler, Luke Y. C. Chen, Thalia S. Field, Heather C. Lindsay, Martin Lavoie, Charles Li, David Migneault, Monika Naus, Jolanta Piszczek, Poupak Rahmani, Gayatri Sreenivasan, Tony Wan, Adrian Yee, Leslie Zypchen, David Sweet
Publikováno v:
Blood advances. 6(11)
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) is a rare complication after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) adenoviral vector vaccination. In British Columbia (BC), Canada, a provincial clinical care pathway wa