… 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 …

… adult patients with septic shock caused by MDR infections admitted to our intensive care unit
(ICU) … However, in our cohort, the appropriateness of initial empirical antibiotic therapy was …

… Early and appropriate antibiotic dosing is associated with improved clinical outcomes in …
in two ICUs in the Netherlands. We enrolled adult patients treated with the following beta-lactam …

… seven adult patients with sepsis were admitted to the ICU within … appropriateness of the
initial antibiotic therapy. According to our institutional protocol, adult patients with sepsis or septic …

… The main risk factor for inappropriate initial empiric antibiotic therapy was healthcare-…
Therefore, it may not be applicable to patients hospitalized in intensive care units or surgery …

… Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant infection in the case of health care–… Initial antibiotic
therapy was appropriate for 55 patients (49.5%). ICU length of stay was shorter with appropriate …

… : Timely appropriate empirical antibiotic plays an important role in critically ill patients with
gram-… onset of gram-negative sepsis from neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). …

… The choice of empirical antibiotic therapy … appropriate empirical antimicrobial treatment
may be improved by using a wider-spectrum microbiological policy at the beginning of the septic …

… Appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy is crucial for the survival of sepsis patients [4, 5].
Formerly, multidrug-resistant pathogens were found almost exclusively in nosocomial …

… that reported patient mortality during ICU or … patients, early initiation of effective broad-spectrum
empirical therapy may be preferable but should be based on analysis of local risk factors …