antibiotic

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

At North Shore Medical Center in Massachusetts, antibiotics stewardship was the most effective intervention in reducing C. diff infections.

New research finds that every hour of delay in administering antibiotics to sepsis patients in emergency rooms increases odds of...

Xellia becomes Civica's first supplier partner and will produce antibiotics in short supply in U.S. hospitals.

Prompt identification of patients who are at high risk of sepsis could be the difference between life or death.

A study found that 37% of patients who took warfarin also took aspirin. That could place patients at a significantly...

At national level, the annual cost of index admissions for sepsis are estimated at more than $23.3 billion.

Research demonstrates a method to prevent MRSA and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci infections in patients with medical devices.

The difficulties of achieving appropriate administration of antibiotics in intensive care units include early treatment of patients due to severity...

New research contradicts the perception that better sepsis care alone can reduce mortality.

Even as hospitals try to cut back on prescribing powerful antibiotics for their patients, many of those patients still head...

This simple framework helps guide clinicians through condition diagnosis, prescribing, patient monitoring, and deciding therapy duration.