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Empiric guideline-recommended weight-based vancomycin dosing and mortality in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a retrospective cohort study

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Predictors of Mortality in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

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Impact of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration on clinical outcomes of patients with vancomycin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infections: a meta-analysis and meta-regression

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High vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration and clinical outcomes in adults with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: a meta-analysis

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Vancomycin MICs do not predict the outcome of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in correctly treated patients

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Effects of Storage on Vancomycin and Daptomycin MIC in Susceptible Blood Isolates of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Predicting High Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections

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Site of infection rather than vancomycin MIC predicts vancomycin treatment failure in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

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Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Brazilian Hospitals: Analysis of 2,563 Cases from a Prospective Nationwide Surveillance Study

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An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

(2011) Peter C. Austin   MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia in Taiwan: Mortality analyses and the impact of vancomycin, MIC = 2 mg/L, by the broth microdilution method

(2010) Jiun-Ling Wang et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: epidemiology, outcome, and laboratory characteristics in a tertiary referral center in the UK

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Importance of appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

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Risk factors for mortality in patients with persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tertiary care hospital in Taiwan

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Clinical characteristics of vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration of 2μg/ml methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients with bacteremia

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Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia May Not Reduce In-Hospital Mortality: A Retrospective Cohort Study

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter‐Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2009) Leonard A. Mermel et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Case–control study to identify factors associated with mortality among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

(2009) D. Marchaim et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Impact of inappropriate empirical therapy for sepsis due to health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2009) Jesús Rodríguez-Baño et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Survival analysis using inverse probability of treatment weighted methods based on the generalized propensity score

(2009) Masahiro Sugihara   PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS

CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting

(2008) Teresa C. Horan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Outcome of patients with meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia at an emergency department of a medical centre in Taiwan

(2008) Chun-Hsing Liao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Influence of Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration on the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

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