QI initiatives improve antibiotic initiation in bone marrow transplant patients
1. Increased education and process standardization led to a significant decrease in time to antibiotic administration among inpatient bone marrow ...
Tag: antibiotics
More physicians are choosing shorter intravenous antibiotic courses for infantile urinary tract infections
1. Proportion of children ≤60 days old receiving more than 4 days (long-course) of intravenous (IV) antibiotics for urinary tract ...
Childhood antibiotic use not linked to celiac or islet cell autoimmunity
1. In a prospective study of children at-risk for development of type-1 diabetes, antibiotic use was not associated with the ...
Antibiotic prescribing rates in pediatric emergency departments vary by race and ethnicity
1. Non-Hispanic (NH) white children were more likely to be prescribed antibiotics for viral acute respiratory tract illnesses (ARTIs) in ...
Implementation of pneumococcal vaccine programs linked to decreased antibiotic prescription
1. After implementation of practice guidelines advocating rational antibiotic prescribing for primary care providers, as well as a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate ...
Antibiotics often overprescribed in elderly patients
1. Almost half of elderly patients received an antibiotic prescription for a non-bacterial acute upper respiratory infection (AURI. 2. Patients ...
Despite guidelines, pediatricians vary in antibiotic choice for pneumonia
1. The majority of children in outpatient clinics were prescribed a macrolide antibiotic for treatment of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) despite ...
Shorter courses of antibiotics for otitis media less effective in children
1. Reducing the duration of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media (AOM) in children aged 6-23 months was associated with ...
Adjunctive azithromycin reduces risk of non-elective cesarean post-operative infection: The C/SOAP trial
1. Women receiving azithromycin in addition to standard antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section (c-section) were 49% less likely to develop ...
Early antibiotic exposure not linked with childhood weight gain
1. Of children exposed to antibiotics within the first 6 months of life, there was no significant difference in childhood ...
