… and relevance of the chosen empirical antibiotic therapy … amoxicillin/clavulanate), appropriate
(pathogen cefotaxime susceptible … of risk factors associated with colonization/infection with …

… performed to identify independent risk factors for mortality in … treatments, shock at onset,
intensive care unit (ICU) … compared to those receiving appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy (36…

… affect the risk of death and the length of stay in an ICU. The arbitrarily … infection with resistant
pathogens. New guidelines indicate recent intravenous antibiotic use to be the risk factor for …

… In this study, both the appropriateness of empiric antibiotic treatment and compliance with
… study, which included 2628 adult patients in 72 ICUs, the proportion of patients who had de-…

… to define and measure appropriate antimicrobial use. We … appropriateness of antimicrobial
use in adult patients with sepsis on a general medical ward or Intensive Care Unit (ICU…

… studies using patient-specific risk factors to drive empiric antibiotic … of empiric antibiotic
appropriateness and time from culture to … (not ICU specific) in which the rate of appropriate empiric …

… impact of the appropriateness of antibiotics on adult patients admitted with sepsis. It showed
… In this study, patients who received appropriate antibiotics also required fewer days on …

… regimen based on patient risk factors for multi-… appropriate antibiotic therapy for severe
sepsis and septic shock and provide strategies to improve outcomes in this subset of ICU patients…

… Use of antibiotics is the single most important modifiable risk factor for the development
of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections ( 2 ). Studies suggest 30–50% of hospital …

… , risk factors for receiving inappropriate empirical antibiotics … of appropriate empirical antibiotics
on outcomes in patients with K … analysis on ICU patients with K pneumoniae bacteraemia. …