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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Health Care Systems by MACDOUGALL, Conan, POLK, Ron E

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Resistant gram-negative bacilli: A neglected healthcare crisis? by Lautenbach, Ebbing, Polk, Ron E

“…Infections caused by drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria are a growing threat to the healthcare community and clinicians are encouraged to employ a…”
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Benchmarking Risk-Adjusted Adult Antibacterial Drug Use in 70 US Academic Medical Center Hospitals by POLK, Ron E, HOHMANN, Samuel F, MEDVEDEV, Sofia, IBRAHIM, Omar

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Antimicrobial Use Metrics and Benchmarking to Improve Stewardship Outcomes by Ibrahim, Omar M., PhD, Polk, Ron E., PharmD

“…Measurement of antimicrobial use before and after an intervention and the associated outcomes are key activities of antimicrobial stewardship programs. In the…”
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Antimicrobial use metrics and benchmarking to improve stewardship outcomes: methodology, opportunities, and challenges by Ibrahim, Omar M, Polk, Ron E

“…Measurement of antimicrobial use before and after an intervention and the associated outcomes are key activities of antimicrobial stewardship programs. In the…”
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Benchmarking Risk-Adjusted Adult Antibacterial Drug Use in 70 US Academic Medical Center Hospitals by Polk, Ron E., Hohmann, Samuel F., Medvedev, Sofia, Ibrahim, Omar

“…Background. Antimicrobial stewardship programs are advised to measure and risk-adjust antimicrobial use to facilitate interhospital comparisons, a process…”
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and fluoroquinolone use by MacDougall, Conan, Harpe, Spencer E, Powell, J Patrick, Johnson, Christopher K, Edmond, Michael B, Polk, Ron E

“…Few long-term multicenter investigations have evaluated the relationships between aggregate antimicrobial drug use in hospitals and bacterial resistance. We…”
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Benchmarking antimicrobial drug use in hospitals by Ibrahim, Omar M, Polk, Ron E

“…Measuring and monitoring antibiotic use in hospitals is believed to be an important component of the strategies available to antimicrobial stewardship programs…”
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Trends in Aminoglycoside Use and Gentamicin-Resistant Gram-Negative Clinical Isolates in US Academic Medical Centers: Implications for Antimicrobial Stewardship by Ababneh, Mera, Harpe, Spencer, Oinonen, Michael, Polk, Ron E.

“…Objective. To measure trends in aminoglycoside antibiotic use and gentamicin-resistant clinical isolates across a network of hospitals and compare…”
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Can the Antibiogram Be Used to Assess Microbiologic Outcomes After Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions? A Critical Review of the Literature by Schulz, Lucas T., Fox, Barry C., Polk, Ron E.

“…Hospitals are implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in response to national guidelines to improve the use and to extend the utility of…”
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Pharmacokinetic Interaction between Amprenavir and Clarithromycin in Healthy Male Volunteers by Brophy, D F, Israel, D S, Pastor, A, Gillotin, C, Chittick, G E, Symonds, W T, Lou, Y, Sadler, B M, Polk, R E

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Fluoroquinolone use and fluoroquinolone-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is declining in US academic medical centre hospitals by Pakyz, Amy L, Lee, Jin A, Ababneh, Mera A, Harpe, Spencer E, Oinonen, Michael J, Polk, Ron E

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Diversity of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in 42 Hospitals in the United States by Pakyz, Amy, Powell, J. Patrick, Harpe, Spencer E., Johnson, Chris, Edmond, Michael, Polk, Ron E.

“…Study Objective. To measure diversity (or heterogeneity) of antibiotic use in a sample of hospitals in the United States and to assess an association with…”
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Drug interactions of macrolides: emphasis on dirithromycin by Watkins, V S, Polk, R E, Stotka, J L

“…To describe the drug interactions of dirithromycin, a new macrolide, and to compare them with those of other macrolides. A literature search was performed…”
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Effect of Ciprofloxacin on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Warfarin by Israel, Debra S., Stotka, Jennifer, Rock, William, Sintek, Charles D., Kamada, Alan K., Klein, Catherine, Swaim, William R., Pluhar, Robert E., Toscano, John P., Lettieri, John T., Heller, Allen H., Polk, Ron E.

“…To detennine if ciprofloxacin therapy alters the response to warfarin treatment, 36 adult patients attending three university-affiliated outpatient…”
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Comparison of Cephalothin and Cefamandole Prophylaxis During Insertion of Prosthetic Heart Valves by Archer, G L, Polk, R E, Duma, R J, Lower, R

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Can the Antibiogram Be Used to Assess Microbiologic Outcomes After Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions? A Critical Review of the Literature : ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP by SCHULZ, Lucas T, FOX, Barry C, POLK, Ron E

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Effect of Clarithromycin on the Pharmacokinetics of 2',3'-Dideoxyinosine in Patients Who Are Seropositive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Gillum, J. Gregory, Bruzzese, Vivian L., Israel, Debra S., Kaplowitz, Lisa G., Polk, Ron E.

“…Clarithromycin is frequently prescribed for treatment of mycobacterial infections in patients infected with HIV. However, clarithromycin inhibits hepatic…”
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Drug-drug interactions with ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolones by Polk, R E

“…Early investigational trials with new quinolone antibiotics revealed two important drug-drug interactions: decreased fluoroquinolone absorption when…”
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Pharmacokinetic drug interactions with antimicrobial agents by GILLUM, J. G, ISRAEL, D. S, POLK, R. E

“…As new classes of antimicrobial drugs have become available, and new uses found for older drugs, pharmacokinetic drug interactions with antimicrobials have…”
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