… of empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics followed by antibiotic stream … benefit for the individual
patient, while reducing the selective … of empirical antibiotics, on appropriate microbiological …

… , 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. …

… to investigate the impact of appropriate empirical therapy, a … >2, ICU stay, presentation with
severe sepsis or septic shock, … risk factor for the subsequent development of MRSA invasive …

… appropriate EAT and the outcomes of Intensive Care Unit (… occurred in patients several
days after hospital and ICU admission, … exposure were significant risk factors. Moreover, most …

… It is important that practitioners identify residents at risk for infection with MDROs. The risk
factor assessment should be done before selecting empiric antibiotic therapy. …

… appropriate therapy and strict adherence to infection control are indicated in all patients at
risk in ICU. … risk factors for the acquisition of ESBL infection in the ICU. All-cause mortality (in …

… empirical antibiotic treatment of CoNS bacteremia adversely affects the outcome. In this study,
the risk factors … 30 % (33/109) ICU patients, and 22 % (24/109) of the patients with CoNS …

… The main limitation on the present investigation is that it was observational and not
randomized, and, thus, an unknown risk factor for mortality might have been unequally distributed …

… This may be, in part, due to different environmental risk factors (eg … to treatment failure,
including: the appropriateness of empiric antibiotic selection [73], [74], [75]; the appropriateness of …

… Appropriate empirical antibiotics decreased ICU length of stay by 6 days (26.3±19.8 days
versus 32.8±29.4 days; p = 0.04). The antibiotics … rather than focusing on risk factors for specific …