… the pattern of antibiotic use in septic patients and the pattern … microbial specimens from the
sepsis patients. The information … empirical antibiotic therapy, and policies to control antibiotic …

… A recent trial, including septic patients, found that CRP was as useful as PCT for reducing
antibiotic use, with no associated harms (123). In a recent meta-analysis, the PCT-guided …

… patients initially present to care, and the high rate of overdiagnosis of sepsis, and thus risks
promoting excess antibiotic use … may seem sensible because sepsis and septic shock are …

… antibiotic exposure while improving outcomes and may intuitively contrast with current
antibiotic … infection and improve outcome while reducing antibiotic use. This can be done by …

… of antibiotic use and factors associated with outcomes among sepsis patients in an intensive
… - This study found that the mortality rate of sepsis patients admitted to an intensive care unit …

… Some investigators went even further, treating septic patients with three instead of two
antibiotics [43, 60]. However, intensification of therapy did not improve clinical outcome, but was …

… within the first hour of recognition” of severe sepsis (emphasis ours) ( 12 ). Our definition
evaluates antibiotic use among patients in whom sepsis has been “recognized” by the providers …

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic and antibiotic treatment strategies for patients suspected
of sepsis, in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia. This can identify areas for improvement in care …

… The dark bars indicate the proportion of 17 430 patients with culture-positive sepsis on
admission who received empiric antibiotics directed at specific resistant organisms. Anti–…

… to validate current empiric antibiotic recommendations in our sepsis protocol based on the
… of empiric antibiotic recommendations and to determine if initial empiric antibiotics provided …