Background and objective: Judicious use of antibiotics is essential considering the growth of
antimicrobial resistance and escalating costs in health care. This intervention study used …

Objectives: Evaluation of the impact of the implementation of practice guidelines, with or
without their reinforcement by a pharmacist, on the intra-hospital use of antibiotics. Materials …

The aim of this study was to survey current treatment practices for common infections in
primary care as a basis for implementation of recently released evidence-based guidelines …

Objectives: This study investigated the impact of a combined intervention strategy to improve
antimicrobial prescribing at University Hospital Groningen. For the intervention, the …

Clinical guidelines have been defined as 'systematically developed statements to assist
practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical …

Most interventions aimed at diminishing the use of antimicrobials in hospitals have focussed
on newly introduced antibiotics and very few have been randomly controlled. We evaluated …

Introduction In the time of increasing resistance and paucity of new drug development there
is a growing need for strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in German and …

Abstract Introduction: In 1999, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)
and Hospital Infection Society (HIS) convened a working party on optimization of antibiotic …

Objectives The aim of this study was to determine the opinions and problems concerning the
use of a local antibiotic hospital guideline in a 1900-bed tertiary-care, university teaching …

The object of this study was to improve the use of antibiotics at Aker University Hospital, a
600-bed university hospital. We developed and implemented guidelines for antibiotic …