The influence of inadequate empirical antimicrobial treatment on patients with bloodstream infections in an intensive care unit

Keyphrases

• Intensive Care Unit 100%
• Bacteremia 100%
• Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy 100%
• Bloodstream Infection 100%
• Inappropriate Treatment 57%
• Microorganisms 42%
• Antimicrobial Therapy 42%
• Empiric Antibiotics 42%
• Critically Ill Patients 28%
• Septic Shock 28%
• Coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CoNS) 28%
• Escherichia Coli 14%
• Clinical Characteristics 14%
• Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) 14%
• Mortality Rate 14%
• Multivariate Analysis 14%
• Abdominal 14%
• Clinical Features 14%
• Patient Outcomes 14%
• Treatment Outcome 14%
• Appropriate Treatment 14%
• Microbiological Characteristics 14%
• Proteus Mirabilis 14%
• Enterobacter Cloacae 14%
• Clinically Significant 14%
• Severe Sepsis 14%
• Global Mortality 14%
• Enterococcus Faecalis 14%
• Teaching Hospital 14%
• Attributable Mortality 14%
• Vascular Catheter 14%
• Candida Species 14%
• Causative Microorganisms 14%
• Underlying Disease 14%
• Antibiotic Susceptibility 14%
• Acinetobacter Baumannii (A. baumannii) 14%
• Microbiological Factors 14%
• Hospital-acquired 14%
• Intensive Care Unit Patients 14%

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science

• Antiinfective Agent 100%
• Bloodstream Infection 100%
• Bacteremia 77%
• Antibiotics 44%
• Microorganism 44%
• Septic Shock 22%
• Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus 22%
• Infection 11%
• Disease 11%
• Enterococcus faecalis 11%
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa 11%
• Escherichia coli 11%
• Clinical Feature 11%
• Mortality Rate 11%
• Epileptic Absence 11%
• Candida 11%
• Proteus mirabilis 11%
• Enterobacter Cloacae 11%
• Sepsis 11%
• Acinetobacter Baumannii 11%
• Antimicrobial Therapy 11%