From the Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Improving the Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Hospitals: A Statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospital Organisms and Its Relation to Antibiotic Use

1983 • 627 citations

Use of Antibiotics

1973 • 366 citations

Computer surveillance of hospital acquired infections and antibiotic use

1987 • 218 citations

Use of Antimicrobial Drugs in General Hospitals

1979 • 205 citations

A study of antimicrobial misuse in a university hospital

1978 • 179 citations

Impact of antimicrobial agents on the gastrointestinal microflora and the risk of infections

1984 • 163 citations

Usage of Antibiotics in a General Hospital: Effect of Requiring Justification

1974 • 162 citations

The failure of physician education as a cost containment strategy. Report of a prospective controlled trial at a university hospital

1984 • 154 citations

Self-transmissible plasmids in staphylococci that encode resistance to aminoglycosides

1983 • 135 citations

Antibiotic Use at Duke University Medical Center

1977 • 123 citations

The Responsibility of the Infectious Disease Community for the Optimal Use of Antimicrobial Agents

1985 • 114 citations

Economic impact of streamlining antibiotic administration.

1987 • 114 citations

SURVEY OF ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING IN A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL I. PATTERN OF USE

1981 • 104 citations

Hospital Use of Antimicrobial Drugs

1978 • 98 citations

Five-Year Surveillance of Aminoglycoside Usage in a University Hospital

1984 • 88 citations

Improved Antibiotic Usage Following Introduction of a Novel Prescription System

1981 • 83 citations

SURVEY OF ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING IN A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL

1981 • 75 citations

Effect of Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporins on the Microbial Flora of Recipients

1983 • 70 citations

Testing the Physician's Knowledge of Antibiotic Use

1975 • 64 citations

Antibiotic Control in a Municipal Hospital

1979 • 59 citations

Evaluation of Antibiotic Usage: A Comprehensive Look at Alternative Approaches

1981 • 57 citations

Role of the Infectious Disease Specialist in Containing Costs of Antibiotics in the Hospital

1986 • 57 citations

Current mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents in microorganisms causing infection in the patient at risk for infection

1984 • 57 citations

Antimicrobial misuse—effects and suggestions for control

1979 • 47 citations

Review and Control of Antimicrobial Usage in Hospitalized Patients

1977 • 47 citations

Hospital Usage of Parenteral Antimicrobial Agents: A Gradated Utilization Review and Cost Containment Program

1985 • 42 citations

Promiscuous Transfer of Drug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria

1984 • 42 citations

Reduction in antibiotic costs by restricting use of an oral cephalosporin

1981 • 39 citations

The impact of an educational program on gentamicin use in a teaching hospital

1982 • 38 citations

Changing Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance

1984 • 35 citations

Comparative Cost Effectiveness of Gentamicin and Tobramycin

1984 • 34 citations

Cost containment associated with decreased parenteral antibiotic administration frequencies.

1984 • 34 citations

Antibiotic Usage in a Pediatric Medical Center

1979 • 34 citations

Responsibility of the Infectious Disease Community for Optimal Use of Antibiotics: Views of the Membership of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

1985 • 30 citations

Effect of formulary restriction of cefotaxime usage.

1985 • 30 citations

Cost Containment of the Second-Generation Cephalosporins by Prospective Monitoring at a Community Teaching Hospital

1985 • 29 citations

Abuse of antibiotics. A study of patients attending a university clinic

1975 • 29 citations

Effects of Monitoring the Usage of Antibiotics

1976 • 29 citations

Antimicrobial usage in forty-three hospitals in England

1982 • 26 citations

Savings Achieved through Cephalosporin Surveillance

1978 • 23 citations

New Drugs and Clinical Economics: Analysis of Cost Effectiveness in the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Innovations

1984 • 22 citations

III. URINARY TRACT INFECTION

1981 • 20 citations

Hospital Charges for Antibiotics

1985 • 19 citations

Surveillance of Antibiotic Use in a Community Hospital

1979 • 18 citations

Use and Abuse of Antibiotics in a Small Community

1957 • 17 citations

Utilization of antibiotics: Analysis of appropriateness of use

1982 • 13 citations

Changing Patterns of Resistance to New Beta-Lactarn Antibiotics

1984 • 13 citations

Effectiveness of a Cephalosporin Education Program —A Pharmacy Education Program

1980 • 12 citations

The effects of monitoring the use of gentamicin in a community hospital

1978 • 12 citations

Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections by Antibiotic Monitoring

1979 • 11 citations

Chloramphenicol: An Inpatient Study of Use and Abuse

1978 • 11 citations

An Audit of Chloramphenicol Use in a Large Community Hospital

1981 • 6 citations

Impact of parenteral cephalosporin regulation on pharmacy costs.

1983 • 2 citations