Adherence to antibiotic guidelines and reported penicillin allergy: pooled cohort data on prescribing and allergy documentation from two English National Health …

CJ Phillips, M Gilchrist, FJ Cooke, BD Franklin… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To investigate documentation of antimicrobial allergy and to determine prescribing
adherence to local antibiotic guidelines for inpatients with and without reported penicillin …

Adequacy of empiric gram-negative coverage for septic patients at an academic medical center

DM Vaughan, A Pakyz, M Stevens, K Lee… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Gram-negative organisms (GNOs) have increasing resistance rates to
levofloxacin at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCUHS), where …

Streamlining to Oral β-Lactam Versus Fluoroquinolone as Definitive Therapy for Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia

K Fong, Y Dubrovskaya, J Siegfried… - Infectious Diseases in …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background Oral treatment strategies for Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia (EB) are
controversial. Fluoroquinolones (FQs) may be preferred for their high bioavailability, but β …