Antibiotics have dramatically changed the prognoses of patients with severe infectious
diseases over the past 50 years. However, the emergence and dissemination of resistant …

The worldwide increase in resistance to antimicrobial drugs has made reducing the
unnecessary use of antibiotics a public health priority. There have been campaigns in many …

Antimicrobials have been used successfully for over 6 decades, but genes expressing
resistance to them have emerged in strains of bacteria and have disseminated through the …

Antibiotics are an extremely important weapon in the fight against infections. However,
antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem. That is why the appropriate use of antibiotics …

Objectives We aimed to assess patient-related determinants potentially influencing antibiotic
use. Methods Studies published in MEDLINE until 30 September 2015 were searched. We …

The misuse of antibiotics has been related to increased morbidity, mortality and bacterial
resistance. The development of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) has been …

Summary Background The Global Point Prevalence Survey (Global-PPS) established an
international network of hospitals to measure antimicrobial prescribing and resistance …

Objective To examine prescription patterns and explore to what extent guidelines are
available and how they might influence treatment appropriateness among hospitalised …

The inappropriate use of antibiotics has often been identified as a problem in effective health
care delivery. High levels of antibiotics use, often clinically unnecessary, have led to a …

Inappropriate antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance are now major global issues.
Antimicrobial stewardship programmes are increasingly being used to optimize antibiotic …