Survival analysis of 314 episodes of sepsis in medical intensive care unit in university hospital: impact of intensive care unit performance and antimicrobial therapy

V Degoricija, M Sharma, A Legac, M Gradišer… - Croatian medical …, 2006 - hrcak.srce.hr
ICU performance and appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy on survival of septic patients.
… The association between risk factors and death was first examined by means of univariate …

Inadequate therapy and antibiotic resistance. Risk factors for mortality in the intensive care unit

M Zaidi, J Sifuentes-Osornio, AL Rolón… - Archives of Medical …, 2002 - Elsevier
appropriate empirical treatment. In this study, antibiotic resistance was not an independent
risk factor … However, statistical analysis showed that as the number of antibiotics to which the …

A 16-year prospective study of community-onset bacteremic Acinetobacter pneumonia: low mortality with appropriate initial empirical antibiotic protocols

JS Davis, M McMillan, A Swaminathan, JA Kelly… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
ICU admission … patients should receive broader empirical antibiotics to cover the possibility
of COAP. In the current study, 95% of patients had at least one of the three main risk factors: …

Rationalizing antimicrobial therapy in the ICU: a narrative review

JF Timsit, M Bassetti, O Cremer, G Daikos… - Intensive care …, 2019 - Springer
… rationalized empirical initiation, choice of appropriateRisk factors for multidrug-resistant
pathogens The clinical value of identifying risk factors for MDRB infection is to guide empirical

… etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitalized patients and appropriateness of empirical treatment recommendations: an international …

M Carugati, S Aliberti, G Sotgiu, F Blasi, A Gori… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… presence of risk factors for MRSA … appropriateness of empirical treatment guideline
recommendations in more than 90% of the CAP cases evaluated, both in the non-ICU and in the ICU

Antibiotic stewardship in the intensive care unit

CE Luyt, N Bréchot, JL Trouillet, J Chastre - Critical care, 2014 - Springer
Appropriate antibiotic stewardship in ICUs includes not only … treatment of bacterial infections
in these critically ill patients, … two or more risk factors are present, with prior antibiotic use or …

Antibiotic stewardship in the intensive care unit

HM Arnold, ST Micek, LP Skrupky… - … and critical care …, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
appropriate antimicrobial therapy, techniques to guide deescalation, and infection prevention
strategies play in ICU … on patients with a risk factor profile as described or in patients cared …

Impact of previous antibiotic therapy on outcome of Gram-negative severe sepsis

MT Johnson, R Reichley, J Hoppe-Bauer… - Critical care …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… as a significant risk factor for infection with antibiotic-resistant … prior antibiotic exposure as
an independent risk factor for … appropriate initial therapy in patients at risk for infection with …

… resistance in nosocomial bloodstream infection associated with pneumonia and the value of systematic surveillance cultures in an adult intensive care unit

PO Depuydt, SI Blot, DD Benoit, GW Claeys… - Critical care …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… both risk factors for antimicrobial resistance were present, which was the case for 60% of our
patients, selecting appropriate … In our study, the rate of empirical appropriate antimicrobial …

Antimicrobial lessons from a large observational cohort on intra-abdominal infections in intensive care units

D Vogelaers, S Blot, A Van den Berge, P Montravers - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
risk factors for antimicrobial resistance in a cohort of patients … of disease severity because
in patients with septic shock, there is … The relative contribution of appropriate empiric antibiotic