Shortened Courses of Antibiotics for Bacterial Infections: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

(2016) Tamar F. Barlam et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

(2016) Andre C. Kalil et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Implementation of Rapid Molecular Infectious Disease Diagnostics: the Role of Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Stewardship

(2016) Kevin Messacar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Patients with Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infection Presenting with Sepsis Do Not Require Longer Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy

(2016) Rishi Rattan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Trimethoprim–Sulfamethoxazole versus Placebo for Uncomplicated Skin Abscess

(2016) David A. Talan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2016) Ane Uranga et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Antimicrobials: a global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA)

(2016) Massimo Sartelli et al.   World Journal of Emergency Surgery

A Systematic Review of the Definitions, Determinants, and Clinical Outcomes of Antimicrobial De-escalation in the Intensive Care Unit

(2015) Alexis Tabah et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Factors Influencing Antibiotic-Prescribing Decisions Among Inpatient Physicians: A Qualitative Investigation

(2015) Daniel Livorsi et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection

(2015) Robert G. Sawyer et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Overtreatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria: Identifying provider barriers to evidence-based care

(2014) Barbara W. Trautner et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2014) Dennis L. Stevens et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Tedizolid for 6 days versus linezolid for 10 days for acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections (ESTABLISH-2): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

(2014) Gregory J Moran et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Association of Excessive Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Intra-Abdominal Infection with Subsequent Extra-Abdominal Infection and Death: A Study of 2,552 Consecutive Infections

(2014) Lin M. Riccio et al.   Surgical Infections

Clinicians' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices regarding Infections with Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in Intensive Care Units

(2013) Juyan Julia Zhou et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Tedizolid Phosphate vs Linezolid for Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections

(2013) Philippe Prokocimer et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Duration of antibiotic treatment for acute pyelonephritis and septic urinary tract infection— 7 days or less versus longer treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

(2013) Noa Eliakim-Raz et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention on Shortening the Duration of Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2012) E. Avdic et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Economic Impact of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Large Matched Cohort

(2012) Marin H. Kollef et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Cefpodoxime vs Ciprofloxacin for Short-Course Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis

(2012) Thomas M. Hooton et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Ciprofloxacin for 7 days versus 14 days in women with acute pyelonephritis: a randomised, open-label and double-blind, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial

(2012) Torsten Sandberg et al.   LANCET

Early-Onset Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Adults Randomized Clinical Trial: Comparison of 8 versus 15 Days of Antibiotic Treatment

(2012) Gilles Capellier et al.   PLoS One

International Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis in Women: A 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

(2011) Kalpana Gupta et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

‘The Body Gets Used to Them’: Patients’ Interpretations of Antibiotic Resistance and the Implications for Containment Strategies

(2011) Lucy Brookes-Howell et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

Procalcitonin-guided algorithms of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

(2010) Petros Kopterides et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

New Lipoglycopeptides

(2010) George G. Zhanel et al.   DRUGS

The Use of Antimicrobial Agents after Diagnosis of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Hospitalized Adults: Antibiotics or Anxiolytics?

(2010) Kevin T. Shiley et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

A randomized comparative study of single-dose fosfomycin and 5-day ciprofloxacin in female patients with uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections

(2010) Nurgul Ceran et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Frank R DeLeo et al.   LANCET

Diagnosis and Management of Complicated Intra‐abdominal Infection in Adults and Children: Guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2009) Joseph S. Solomkin et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Increased US Emergency Department Visits for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, and Changes in Antibiotic Choices, During the Emergence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2008) Daniel J. Pallin et al.   ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Effects of Prior Effective Therapy on the Efficacy of Daptomycin and Ceftriaxone for the Treatment of Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

(2008) Peter E. Pertel et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Antibiotic Overuse: The Influence of Social Norms

(2008)   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

A Double-Blind, Randomized Comparison of Levofloxacin 750 mg Once-Daily for Five Days With Ciprofloxacin 400/500 mg Twice-Daily for 10 Days for the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections and Acute Pyelonephritis

(2008) Janet Peterson et al.   UROLOGY