Where there is a lack of evidence we have formulated what we perceive to be appropriate guidelines.doi:10.1111/j.1468-3083.2005.01296.xG PereraDepartment of Dermatology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London, SE5 9RS andR Hay...
In this observational study in a Belgian tertiary hospital, in-hospital antibiotic use among patients with severe AECOPD was determined by the symptom severity of the exacerbation and the underlying COPD severity as recommended by the guidelines, but also by patient-related variables. Moreover, in-...
2. How different factors, such as light, temperature, oxygen content, and presence of different chemicals in the aquatic environment influence the formation of biofilms on microplastics? Some dissolved organic substances are released from the biofilms themselves, how do dissolved organic substances releas...
Other countries have also approved the use of phage to guarantee food safety. The National Food Service of the Israeli Ministry of Health approved all phages that had already been approved by the FDA to be used for analogous purposes in 2014 under the regulations titled “Guidelines: use of ba...
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Antibiotic prescribing patterns We assessed the prevalence of combined antibiotic therapies, considered to be an indicator of low-quality of prescribing [4], especially given that current national and international clinical management guidelines pre- dominantly recommend monotherapy for the empiric treatment ...
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We found that several factors influencing the implementation of the behavior change interventions were interconnected as shown in Fig.2. For example, insufficient laboratory capacity to provide data on AMR patterns (structural characteristics) hindered the development of context-specific guidelines on antib...
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[11]. In addition, separate reports have documented sub-therapeutic concentrations of linezolid [12] and cefoxitin [13] in this setting, potentially contributing to adverse clinical outcomes. As current data are relatively sparse, few absolute recommendations can be made, although useful guidelines ...