Antibiotic use appears to have increased among older adults whose prescription drug coverage improved as a result of enrolling in Medicare Part D, with the largest increases for broad-spectrum, newer ...

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America published a guideline in 2011 detailing recommended treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia ...

Clinical outcomes among adult inpatients were no worse when broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was delayed vs started early, challenging the belief that overly broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy ...

Many physicians prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily, most notably for acute respiratory tract infections, but also for conditions such as otitis media or sinusitis, in which antibiotic benefit is ...

Among adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting, broad-spectrum antibiotics vs macrolide monotherapy were associated with an increased risk for adverse drug events.

The majority of children with complicated community-acquired pneumonia (cCAP) receive antibiotics for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus despite low positivity rates, based on data from a new ...

Antibiotic resistance is an important issue and a priority for UK health policy. It's possibly the next ticking time bomb in the healthcare system. In our analysis, the financial burden of the tax is ...