Do results of surveillance cultures impact the choice of empirical antibiotics among patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections?

Rossana Rosa; Jose G Castro; Rachel Latibeaudiere; Nicholas Namias; Luisa Munoz-Price

doi:10.1017/ice.2015.215

Do results of surveillance cultures impact the choice of empirical antibiotics among patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections?

Rossana Rosa, Jose G Castro, Rachel Latibeaudiere, Nicholas Namias, Luisa Munoz-Price

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Abstract

We aimed to determine whether the results of surveillance cultures were associated with use of appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy among patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections. We found that surveillance status was not associated with appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy (P =.36). There were significant delays to concordant therapy among surveillance-positive patients (P =.03).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1455-1457
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	36
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2015.215
State	Published - 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Microbiology (medical)
Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases

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Do results of surveillance cultures impact the choice of empirical antibiotics among patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections? / Rosa, Rossana; Castro, Jose G; Latibeaudiere, Rachel; Namias, Nicholas; Munoz-Price, Luisa.

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