"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Empiric gram-negative antibiotic use varied significantly across the United States, with high inter-hospital ...

Jan. 16, 2004 — Rotating empiric antibiotic use in the intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the rate of resistant and nonresistant infections on non-ICU wards, according to the results of a prospective ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major heath concern in the United States, especially among the elderly population. It is the leading cause of infectious death and the seventh overall cause of ...

Emergency medicine pharmacists increase guideline-concordant prescribing at hospitals with both new and established antibiotic stewardship programs. Employing emergency medicine pharmacists improves ...

Researchers developed clinical risk scores to help determine appropriate empiric antibiotic treatment for adult outpatients with complicated urinary tract infection. Clinical risk scores developed via ...

Aims: To compare empiric antibiotics with the sensitivities of organisms causing acquired septicaemia in infants in a tertiary neonatal unit Methods: We performed a retrospective audit of ...

SAN FRANCISCO—New findings presented here at the annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium challenge the widespread practice of placing patients on an empiric course of antibiotics for a newly elevated ...

Des Plaines, IL – Eighty-eight percent of emergency department (ED) patients with suspected septic olecranon bursitis treated with empiric antibiotics without aspiration had resolution without need ...

In a recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers evaluated the use of empiric antibiotics to determine the prevalence rates of community-acquired bacterial coinfections among ...

Dr. David Shlaes has been following the various discussions around the development of rapid diagnostic tests for acute bacterial infections. The ACSH advisor has concluded that broad-spectrum empiric ...