Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of America Joint Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance: Guidelines for the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals

Enterobacter Bacteremia: Clinical Features and Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance during Therapy

1991 • 884 citations

A novel family of potentially mobile DNA elements encoding site‐specific gene‐integration functions: integrons

1989 • 880 citations

Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin Resistance

1995 • 756 citations

Resistance to Antibiotics Mediated by Target Alterations

1994 • 671 citations

Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospital Organisms and Its Relation to Antibiotic Use

1983 • 627 citations

Nosocomial Outbreak of Klebsiella Infection Resistant to Late-Generation Cephalosporins

1993 • 605 citations

Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals

1996 • 588 citations

Active efflux mechanisms for antimicrobial resistance

1992 • 500 citations

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcal Colonization and Infection in a Long-Term Care Facility

1991 • 389 citations

Cloning and primary structure of Staphylococcus aureus DNA topoisomerase IV: a primary target of fluoroquinolones

1994 • 376 citations

Analysis of gyrA and grlA mutations in stepwise-selected ciprofloxacin-resistant mutants of Staphylococcus aureus

1995 • 278 citations

Aminoglycoside resistance and aminoglycoside usage: ten years of experience in one hospital

1991 • 253 citations

Gentamicin-Resistant Menadione And Hemin Auxotrophic Staphylococcus Aureus Persist Within Cultured Endothelial Cells

1994 • 240 citations

Decrease in Nosocomial Clostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea by Restricting Clindamycin Use

1994 • 239 citations

Strategies to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals. A challenge to hospital leadership

1996 • 169 citations

Epidemiology of Endemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Why Infection Control Efforts Have Failed

1984 • 157 citations

Trends in antibiotic utilization and bacterial resistance

1992 • 153 citations

Balancing the drug-resistance equation

1994 • 150 citations

Strategies for prevention and control of multiple drug-resistant nosocomial infection

1981 • 149 citations

Antibiotic cost savings from formulary restrictions and physician monitoring in a medical-school-affiliated hospital

1987 • 135 citations

Changes in antimicrobial agent usage resulting from interactions among clinical pharmacy, the infectious disease division, and the microbiology laboratory

1993 • 124 citations

Quality Standard for Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgical Procedures

1994 • 112 citations

Detection of gyrA gene mutations associated with ciprofloxacin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: analysis by polymerase chain reaction and automated direct DNA sequencing

1992 • 109 citations

Implementing and evaluating a system of generic infection precautions: Body substance isolation

1990 • 104 citations

Clinical Performance and Quality Health Care

1999 • 98 citations

Five-Year Surveillance of Aminoglycoside Usage in a University Hospital

1984 • 88 citations

The Use of an Antibiotic Order Form for Antibiotic Utilization Review: Influence on Physicians' Prescribing Patterns

1984 • 86 citations

Do Intensive Hospital Antibiotic Control Programs Prevent the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance?

1994 • 73 citations

Observations on spiraling empiricism: its causes, allure, and perils, with particular reference to antibiotic therapy

1989 • 63 citations

Minimizing Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospital Bacteria: Can Switching or Cycling Drugs Help?

1986 • 62 citations

Hospital antibiotic control measures in the UK

1994 • 61 citations

Computer surveillance of hospital-acquired infections and antibiotic use

1986 • 61 citations

Antibiotic Resistance Patterns During Aminoglycoside Restriction

1985 • 60 citations

A seven year survey of antibiotic susceptibility and its relationship with usage

1989 • 59 citations

Colonization and Cross-Colonization of Nursing Home Patients with Trimethoprim-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli

1993 • 58 citations

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

1985 • 42 citations

Enforcing a policy for restricting antimicrobial drug use

1995 • 40 citations

Antimicrobial usage and microbial resistance in a university hospital during a seven-year period

1989 • 37 citations

Increased resistance to amikacin in a neonatal unit following intensive amikacin usage

1992 • 37 citations

Trends in Antimicrobial Utilization at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital during a 15-Year Period (1978-1992)

1993 • 34 citations

Antibiotic streamlining from combination therapy to monotherapy utilizing an interdisciplinary approach

1988 • 32 citations

Cost-effectiveness of prospective and continuous parenteral antibiotic control: Experience at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 1987 to 1989

1991 • 32 citations

Relationship between ceftriaxone use and resistance of Enterobacter species

1992 • 31 citations

An Outbreak of Gentamicin-ResistantKlebsiella pneumoniae:Analysis of Control Measures

1984 • 30 citations

Surveillance of aminoglycoside resistance: European data

1986 • 27 citations

A Statewide Surveillance System for Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria: New Jersey

1995 • 20 citations

Influence of amikacin as the primary aminoglycoside on bacterial isolates in the intensive care unit

1990 • 20 citations

Assessment of Cost-Effective Antibiotic Therapy in the Management of Infections in Cancer Patients

1994 • 18 citations

Impact of voluntary vs enforced compliance of third-generation cephalosporin use in a teaching hospital

1992 • 17 citations

Antibiotic cost reduction by providing cost information

1988 • 16 citations

Detection and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

1994 • 16 citations

Improved antibiotic usage following introduction of a novel prescription system

1981 • 15 citations

Do Antibiotic Combinations Prevent the Emergence of Resistant Organisms?

1988 • 8 citations

Long-term amikacin use. Effects on aminoglycoside susceptibility patterns of gram-negative bacilli

1982 • 4 citations

Effect of an educational intervention on oral cephalosporin use in primary care

1987 • 3 citations

Effect of formulary restriction of cefotaxime usage

1985 • 3 citations

Clinical and microbiologic consequences of amikacin use during a 42-month period

1986 • 3 citations