… all patients with severe sepsis and septic shock admitted to the participating ICUs during
2 months in 2005 and 4 months in 2006. Our aims are (a) to describe the patterns of empiric …

… purpose of this study was to identify prescribing triggers for hydrocortisone in septic shock. …
work in our ICUs. Although it is possible that attitudes and prescribing patterns differ between …

… sepsis, who and how long to treat, and which antibiotics to use remain important clinical
problems [23,24]. So, early sepsis … Since in our study, neonatal sepsis was predominantly …

… , nonadherence to antibiotic guidelines resulted in more prescriptions for broad-spectrum …
Since the susceptibility patterns in over half the population are unknown, we cannot rule out …

… prescribing patterns at admission into the ICU. Ours is an open, mixed medical–surgical, adult,
13-bedded ICU in … sepsis syndrome (61 patients). The average length of stay (LOS) in the …

… Antibiotic-prescription pattern in both blood culture positive and negative were analyzed …
severe sepsis occurs in the intensive care unit, the majority of hospital cases of sepsis originate …

… Abstract: Sepsis, the body’s systemic immune response to … , prescribing pattern of antibiotics,
and outcomes of sepsis. … on 70 ICU patients admitted with severe sepsis and septic shock in …

… , patients presenting to our ICU with severe sepsis or septic shock are typically started on …
the type of infection may optimize the prescribing pattern and reduce cost. We reported positive …

… irrational prescription of antibiotics. Therefore, assessment of the prescribing pattern of
antibiotics in the intensive care unit (ICU) would help to ascertain the rational use of antibiotics in …

… Background: The objective of the study was to evaluate the current prescription pattern of …
Antibiotic prescription patterns in the empiric therapy of severe sepsis: Combination of …