De-escalation after empirical meropenem treatment in the intensive care unit: Fiction or reality?

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 641-646

  De Waele, Jan J ^a   Ravyts, Mariska ^a   Depuydt, Pieter ^a   Blot, Stijn I ^a   Decruyenaere, Johan ^a   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial therapy; De escalation; Intensive care units

Indexed keywords

MEROPENEM;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG DE-ESCALATION; DRUG THERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 78649451111     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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