Optimizing antimicrobial prescribing: Are clinicians following national trends in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections rather than local data when treating MRSA wound infections

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schweizer, Marin L ^a,b   Perencevich, Eli N ^a,b   Eber, Michael R ^c   Cai, Xueya ^b,d   Shardell, Michelle D ^e   Braykov, Nikolay ^c   Laxminarayan, Ramanan ^c,f,g  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Center for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial prescribing; Drug utilization; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LINEZOLID;

ARTICLE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; TREND STUDY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84907806662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-2-28     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Roberts JC, Krueger RL, Peak KK, Veguilla W, Cannons AC, Amuso PT, Cattani J. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemic clone USA300 in isolates from Florida and Washington. J Clin Microbiol 2006, 44(1):225-226. 10.1128/JCM.44.1.225-226.2006, 1351968, 16390975.
2. Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, Everett ED, Dellinger P, Goldstein EJ, Gorbach SL, Hirschmann JV, Kaplan EL, Montoya JG, Wade JC. Infectious Diseases Society of America Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections. Clin Infect Dis 2005, 41(10):1373-1406. 10.1086/497143, 16231249, Infectious Diseases Society of America.
3. Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, Daum RS, Fridkin SK, Gorwitz RJ, Kaplan SL, Karchmer AW, Levine DP, JRybak M, Talan DA, Chambers HF. Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of America for the treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children. Clin Infect Dis 2011, 52(3):e18-e55. 10.1093/cid/ciq146, 21208910.
4. Moran GJ, Krishnadasan A, Gorwitz RJ, Fosheim GE, McDougal LK, Carey RB, Talan DA. EMERGEncy ID Net Study Group Methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections among patients in the emergency department. N Engl J Med 2006, 355(7):666-674. 10.1056/NEJMoa055356, 16914702, EMERGEncy ID Net Study Group.
5. Gorwitz RJ, Jernigan DB, Powers JH, Jernigan JA. and Participants Strategies For Clinical Management Of Mrsa In The Community: Summary Of An Expert's Meeting Convened By The Cdc 2006, Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Participants.
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States 2013, [http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
7. Marra F, Patrick DM, Chong M, McKay R, Hoang L, Bowie WR. Population-based study of the increased incidence of skin and soft tissue infections and associated antimicrobial use. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2012, 56(12):6243-6249. 10.1128/AAC.00649-12, 3497163, 23006762.
8. Gupta K, Macintyre A, Vanasse G, Dembry LM. Trends in prescribing beta-lactam antibiotics for treatment of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45(12):3930-3934. 10.1128/JCM.01510-07, 2168566, 17942648.
9. Pallin DJ, Egan DJ, Pelletier AJ, Espinola JA, Hooper DC, Camargo CA. 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. Ann Emerg Med 2008, 51(3):291-298. 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.004, 18222564.
10. Wood JB, Smith DB, Baker EH, Brecher SM, Gupta K. Has the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus increased trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole use and resistance?: a 10-year time series analysis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2012, 56(11):5655-5660. 10.1128/AAC.01011-12, 3486583, 22908161.
11. Sahm DF, Marsilio MK, Piazza G. Antimicrobial resistance in key bloodstream bacterial isolates: electronic surveillance with the surveillance network database-USA. Clin Infect Dis 1999, 29(2):259-263. 10.1086/520195, 10476722.
12. Styers D, Sheehan DJ, Hogan P, Sahm DF. Laboratory-based surveillance of current antimicrobial resistance patterns and trends among Staphylococcus aureus: 2005 status in the United States. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 2006, 5:2. 10.1186/1476-0711-5-2, 1397857, 16469106.
13. Hoffmann MS, Eber MR, Laxminarayan R. Increasing resistance of Acinetobacter species to imipenem in United States hospitals, 1999-2006. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010, 31(2):196-197. 10.1086/650379, 20030564.
14. Kutner MH, Nachtsheim CJ, Neter J. Applied Linear Regression Models 2003, McGraw-Hill/Irwin: Columbus, 4.
15. European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS): Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Europe 2011 [http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/Forms/ECDC_DispForm.aspx?ID=998].
16. Goldberg E, Bishara J. Contamporary unconventional clinical use of co-trimoxazole. Clin Microbiol Infect 2012, 18(1):8-17.
17. Dantes R, Mu Y, Belflower R, Aragon D, Dumyati G, Harrison LH, Lessa FC, Lynfield R, Nadle J, Petit S, Ray SM, Schaffner W, Townes J, Fridkin S. National burden of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, United States. JAMA Intern Med 2013, [e-published ahead of print].
18. Harris AD, Furuno JP, Roghmann MC, Johnson JK, Conway LJ, Venezia RA, Standiford HC, Schweizer ML, Hebden JN, Moore AC, Perencevich EN. Targeted surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its potential use to guide empiric antimicrobial therapy. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010, 54(8):3143-3148. 10.1128/AAC.01590-09, 2916333, 20479207.