Clinical outcomes among adult inpatients were no worse when broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was delayed vs started early, challenging the belief that overly broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy ...

An international research team found some beneficial bacteria in people’s guts may not return after broad-spectrum antibiotic exposure, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology. 1.

About half of suspected sepsis cases account for broad-spectrum antibiotic use — but a lot of these cases don’t require the medications at all, according to a study published June 27 in JAMA Network ...

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are overused as a first-line defense in pneumonia care, a new study finds. In fact, older pneumonia patients treated with these drugs fare no better than patients who ...

Similar outcomes in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) suggest that antibiotics selected by Gram staining were noninferior to those based on guidelines and also significantly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Pediatric practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of initial UTI in febrile infants and young ...

Despite guidelines stating otherwise, clinicians continue to prescribe inappropriate antibiotics to hospitalized patients with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), raising costs and increasing the ...

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare has found that administering broad-spectrum antibiotics, which act against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria, to treat patients with ...

Individual risk assessment with automated EHR alerts are an effective and safe strategy to limit use of extended-spectrum antibiotics in patients hospitalized with UTI. An antibiotic stewardship ...

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