Abstract:
:The desideratum of "appropriate" antibiotic therapy include efficacy, safety, and low cost. Strategies for achieving these goals include education, control of the hospital formulary, written justification forms and automatic stop orders, ongoing utilization review, restriction, required consultation, control of laboratory susceptibility testing, and limitation of contact time between physicians and pharmaceutical representatives. Because traditional education methods have had limited impact on "appropriate" antibiotic use, the potential of the newer strategies must be explored. Most published studies emanate from teaching hospitals, leaving the applicability of the findings to community hospitals largely unsettled. At each hospital, it should be determined which combination of strategies will strike the best balance between effectiveness and palatability. Computer technology continues to hold promise as a way to provide instantaneous, nonthreatening feedback to prescribing physicians.
journal_name
Infect Dis Clin North Amjournal_title
Infectious disease clinics of North Americaauthors
Bryan CSsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-12-01 00:00:00pages
723-34issue
4eissn
0891-5520issn
1557-9824journal_volume
3pub_type
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.007
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2007.08.005
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1988-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0891-5520(05)70294-4
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2015.02.001
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1990-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2013.10.001
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2018.10.008
更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The rapid rate of increase in reported cases of Lyme disease exceeds that of any zoonotic disease, and the annual occurrence of cases is greater than the sum of all other tick-borne illnesses in the United States. This, in addition to the geographic spread of cases to most of the United States, has greatly heightened ...
journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2005.04.005
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2018.07.001
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Considering experience acquired in the past years, it seems as though physicians have reached a plateau in the frequency of peritonitis. A peritonitis rate of 1 every 2 patient years may be acceptable. Further reduction of this peritonitis rate will require inordinately large efforts on all fronts. One will have to co...
journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0891-5520(05)70171-9
更新日期:2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have proposed a model in which the initiation of human parturition in the presence of infection is controlled by the host. Systemic maternal infections such as pyelonephritis or localized infections such as deciduitis can trigger parturition by the activation of the monocyte and macrophage system in peripheral bloo...
journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0891-5520(05)70347-0
更新日期:1997-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Zygomycosis is an increasingly common infection in immunocompromised patients. Advances in the understanding of Zygomycetes pathobiology and the introduction of new drugs with improved activity and tolerability for treatment of zygomycosis have improved the prospects of effectively controlling this devastating infecti...
journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2006.06.003
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious diseases in the United States. The mortality rate due to severe CAP has shown little improvement over the past few years, with a rate as high as 50% mainly in patients admitted to intensive care units. Death and adverse outcomes from CAP ...
journal_title:Infectious disease clinics of North America
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.idc.2012.11.014
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00