Effect of a “handshake” stewardship program versus a formulary restriction policy on High-End antibiotic use, expenditure, antibiotic resistance, and patient outcome

A compilation of antimicrobial susceptibility data from a network of 13 Lebanese hospitals reflecting the national situation during 2015–2016

(2019) Rima Moghnieh et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Value of hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs [ASPs]: a systematic review

(2019) Dilip Nathwani et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Antibiotics for Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Bloodstream Infections

(2019) Renaud Prevel et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Post- MERINO trial: Any role for piperacillin-tazobactam in treating bloodstream infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae?

(2019) Maroun M. Sfeir   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

The 2018 Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Guidelines for the use of antimicrobial therapy in complicated intra-abdominal infections in the era of antimicrobial resistance

(2019) Nicholas Haddad et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Current options for the treatment of infections due to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in different groups of patients

(2019) B. Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions to Combat Antibiotic Resistance: an Update on Targeted Strategies

(2019) Kelli A. Cole et al.   Current Infectious Disease Reports

Sustainability of Handshake Stewardship: Extending a Hand Is Effective Years Later

(2019) Christine E MacBrayne et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Are antimicrobial stewardship programs effective strategies for preventing antibiotic resistance? A systematic review

(2018) Leandro G. Bertollo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis

(2018) Evelina Tacconelli et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Metrics of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

(2018) Amy L. Brotherton   MEDICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Meropenem on 30-Day Mortality for Patients With E coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infection and Ceftriaxone Resistance

(2018) Patrick N. A. Harris et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Impact of an infectious diseases specialist-led antimicrobial stewardship programmes on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in a large Korean hospital

(2018) Hyeonjun Hwang et al.   Scientific Reports

Correlation between antifungal consumption and the distribution of Candida species in different hospital departments of a Lebanese medical Centre

(2018) Lyn Awad et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The quality of studies evaluating antimicrobial stewardship interventions: a systematic review

(2018) Valentijn A. Schweitzer et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Epidemiology of common resistant bacterial pathogens in the countries of the Arab League

(2018) Rima A Moghnieh et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

An antibiotic stewardship exercise in the ICU: building a treatment algorithm for the management of ventilator-associated pneumonia based on local epidemiology and the 2016 Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society guidelines

(2017) Lyn Awad et al.   Infection and Drug Resistance

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Clinical and Economic Outcomes from the Implementation of Hospital-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

(2016) Styliani Karanika et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Patient specific risk stratification for antimicrobial resistance and possible treatment strategies in gram-negative bacterial infections

(2016) Matteo Bassetti et al.   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Retrospective case series of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae at a tertiary care centre in Lebanon

(2016) Zeina A. Kanafani et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanese hospitals: retrospective nationwide compiled data

(2016) Kamal Chamoun et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Lebanese intensive care unit: risk factors for acquisition and determination of a colonization score

(2016) R. Moghnieh et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Handshake Stewardship

(2016) Amanda L. Hurst et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Antibiotic consumption in non-teaching Lebanese hospitals: A cross-sectional study

(2016) Katia Iskandar et al.   Journal of Infection and Public Health

Third generation cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriaceae and multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria causing bacteremia in febrile neutropenia adult cancer patients in Lebanon, broad spectrum antibiotics use as a major risk factor, and correlation with poor prognosis

(2015) Rima Moghnieh et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Analysis of community- and hospital-acquired bacteraemia during a recent 5-year period

(2014) H.-W. Moon et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Third-generation cephalosporin resistance in gram-negative bacteria in the community: a growing public health concern

(2014) Sun Hee Park   KOREAN JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Epidemiological Interpretation of Studies Examining the Effect of Antibiotic Usage on Resistance

(2013) V. Schechner et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Antibiotic consumption in southern and eastern Mediterranean hospitals: results from the ARMed project

(2008) M. A. Borg et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY