[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital with an ongoing antibiotic stewardship program

O Henig, O Kehat, SE Meijer, A Chikly, A Weiss-Meilik… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
… to compare the antibiotic consumption in those designated COVID-19 departments to the
antibiotic … for COVID-19 patients versus non-COVID patients. Specifically, 18.2% of hospitalized …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic prescription and in-hospital mortality in COVID-19: a prospective multicentre cohort study

L Pinte, A Ceasovschih, CM Niculae… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… of the COVID-19 pandemic, empiric antibiotics (ATBs) have … antibiotic treatment on the
outcomes of hospitalised patients with moderate and severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19

[HTML][HTML] Use of procalcitonin for antibiotic stewardship in patients with COVID-19: A quality improvement project in a district general hospital

C Peters, K Williams, EA Un, L Little, A Saad… - Clinical Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
… the prolific use of antibiotics in patients with suspected COVID-19. Guidelines released by
antibiotics to only those patients with severe symptoms thought to be caused by COVID-19. …

Evaluation of early antibiotic use in patients with non‐severe COVID19 without bacterial infection

X Yin, X Xu, H Li, N Jiang, J Wang, Z Lu, N Xiong… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… of antibiotics in patients with non-severe COVID-19 without bacterial infection was associated
with progression to severe COVID-19 … analysis showed that this held for all antibiotic types. …

[HTML][HTML] Consumption trends of antibiotics in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic

FS Del Fiol, CC Bergamaschi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
COVID19. Aim: This study analyzed the sales data of the main antibiotics prescribed in Brazil
to verify the change in consumption trends of these drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing the use of empiric antibiotic therapy in COVID-19 on hospital admission

NN Pettit, CT Nguyen, AK Lew, PH Bhagat… - BMC infectious …, 2021 - Springer
… -19 patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the … empiric CABP antibiotic therapy
among patients with COVID-19. … prescribing of antibiotics for CABP among COVID-19 patients. …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: don't neglect antimicrobial stewardship principles!

BD Huttner, G Catho… - Clinical …, 2020 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
… In Wuhan, where the pandemic started, most patients with COVID-19 seem to have
received antibiotics, mostly respiratory quinolones, although Chinese guidelines state “inappropriate …

[HTML][HTML] All-cause mortality among patients treated with repurposed antivirals and antibiotics for COVID-19 in Mexico City: A real-world observational study

J Mancilla-Galindo, JÓ García-Méndez… - EXCLI …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in Mexico City treated with repurposed antivirals
and antibiotics. … 395,343 patients evaluated for suspected COVID-19 between February 24 …

[HTML][HTML] Survey of antibiotic and antifungal prescribing in patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 in Scottish hospitals

RA Seaton, CL Gibbons, L Cooper, W Malcolm… - Journal of Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
antibiotic prescribing in patients with suspected COVID-19 is not well characterised.
Unnecessary antibiotic prescribing is of concern for the individual in view of the risk of antibiotic-…

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of bacterial co-infections and antibiotic resistance in positive COVID-19 patients

AM Marua, ND Shethwala, P Bhatt, S Amar - Maedica, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
patients with COVID-19 are susceptible to bacterial co-infection, which leads to the conclusion
that excessive use of antibiotics … prescribing different antibiotics to patients with COVID-19. …