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101. Research Protocol: Clostridium difficile Infection Update (pdf file)
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     December 23, 2014 - that allow colonization and toxin production, including failure of the immune defenses and use of antibiotics … spectrum or multiple antibiotics … percent of patients who have had more than two episodes.21 Currently, clinicians choose from a number of antibiotics … KQ3: What is the comparative effectiveness and harms of different antibiotic treatments? a. … Intermediate Outcomes • Appropriate antibiotic use. • Positive environmental cultures.

102. Clostridium Difficile Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 09, 2024 - tenderness You might get C. difficile disease if you have an illness that requires prolonged use of antibiotics … Treatment is with antibiotics.

103. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     August 07, 2012 - Antibiotics currently are not commonly used in the United States to treat OME and are not recommended … for the treatment of OME.6, 10, 20 An upcoming Cochrane Collaboration review on the use of antibiotics … Oral steroids alone or in combination with antibiotics had a positive effect on 2-week disease outcomes … Antibiotics for otitis media with effusion in children (protocol). … Which antibiotic for acute otitis media? Drug Ther Bull. 1974 Jul 5; 12(14):53-4.

104. Staphylococcal Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     June 20, 2013 - Most staph skin infections are easily treated with antibiotics or by draining the infection. … staph bacteria such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) are resistant to certain antibiotics

105. Hormones | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 29, 2016 - Systematic Review Archived January 10, 2013 Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic … Emergency Settings Systematic Review Archived October 5, 2012 Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic

106. Dietary Proteins | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 11, 2014 - Systematic Review Archived January 10, 2013 Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic … Kidney Disease Systematic Review Archived October 5, 2012 Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic

107. Hormones | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 29, 2016 - Systematic Review Archived January 10, 2013 Future Research Needs on Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic … Emergency Settings Systematic Review Archived October 5, 2012 Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic

108. PowerPoint Presentation
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     June 13, 2013 - (next slide) 6 The overuse of antibiotics: focus group Question: How can doctors better communicate … ; and the educational approach or information that will gain patients’ cooperation in not overusing antibiotics … (next slide) 7 The overuse of antibiotics: deliberative session Question: should there be more specific … limits on how doctors use antibiotics? … Should there be more specific limits on how doctors use antibiotics?

109. Disposition of Comments CER 185 Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
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     May 05, 2017 - The key point here is the inferiority of oral antibiotics, not whether a topical antibiotic drop should … drops are not included here, such as expense, antibiotic resistance. … resistance, gastrointestinal side effects of antibiotics or pain related to ear drops. … Network Graph, the authors identified three trials comparing watchful waiting/placebo with oral antibiotics … the studies which do not contribute indirect information (and compare dual treatments, e.g. oral antibiotics

110. Disposition of Comments CER 185 Tympanostomy Tubes in Children With Otitis Media (pdf file)
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     May 05, 2017 - The key point here is the inferiority of oral antibiotics, not whether a topical antibiotic drop should … drops are not included here, such as expense, antibiotic resistance. … resistance, gastrointestinal side effects of antibiotics or pain related to ear drops. … Network Graph, the authors identified three trials comparing watchful waiting/placebo with oral antibiotics … the studies which do not contribute indirect information (and compare dual treatments, e.g. oral antibiotics

111. Mitral Valve Prolapse | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     To prevent it, doctors used to prescribe antibiotics before dental work or certain surgeries. … Now, only people at high risk of endocarditis need the antibiotics.

112. Tonsillitis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     If the cause is a bacterial infection, such as strep throat, your child will need to take antibiotics … It is important for your child to finish the antibiotics even if he or she feels better. … if he or she Keeps getting tonsillitis Has bacterial tonsillitis that does not get better with antibiotics

113. Health-Careassociated-Infections Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - selection, antibiotic duration, appropriate hair removal, or both adherence and infection rates. … selection 1 simple before-after54 Adherence: antibiotic duration 1 simple before-after54 Adherence … Effect of optimized antibiotic prophylaxis on the incidence of surgical site infection. … Effect of a change in policy regarding the timing of prophylactic antibiotics on the rate of postcesarean … Measuring compliance with surgical antibiotic protocols: an intervention.

114. Endocarditis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     Treatment usually involves high-dose antibiotics. … If you are at high risk, your doctor might prescribe antibiotics before dental work and certain types

115. Acute Bronchitis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 07, 2013 - Antibiotics won't help if the cause is viral. You may get antibiotics if the cause is bacterial.

116. Febrile-Infants-Diagnosis-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - risk Hospitalize Empiric antibiotics Not defined Hospitalize Empiric antibiotics Hospitalize … We identified 10 studies reporting on immediate antibiotic (or antiviral) therapy administered to infants … Febrile infants classified as being at high risk for SBI were administered immediate antibiotic therapy … 18.9 percent had infiltration of an intravenous line.12 In another study,32 immediate intravenous antibiotic … percent of these infants were transferred to an outpatient day treatment center to complete their antibiotic

117. Pinkeye | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     infection will clear in most cases without medical care, but bacterial pinkeye needs treatment with antibiotic

118. Considering the Range of Decision-Relevant Effects (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Society as a whole (e.g., prophylactic antibiotics or quarantine after exposure to an infectious individual … An example would be prescribing prophylactic antibiotics or implementing a quarantine after exposure … What are the effects of antibiotic treatment? … The reviewers could have considered: Does screening lead to antibiotic treatment? … needed services; society can be affected by public health interventions such as the dissemination of antibiotics

119. Considering the Range of Decision-Relevant Effects (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Society as a whole (e.g., prophylactic antibiotics or quarantine after exposure to an infectious individual … An example would be prescribing prophylactic antibiotics or implementing a quarantine after exposure … What are the effects of antibiotic treatment? … The reviewers could have considered: Does screening lead to antibiotic treatment? … needed services; society can be affected by public health interventions such as the dissemination of antibiotics

120. Otitis Media With Effusion: Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Antibiotics currently are not commonly used in the United States to treat OME and are not recommended … for the treatment of OME. 6,10,20 An upcoming Cochrane Collaboration review on the use of antibiotics … Oral steroids alone or in combination with antibiotics had a positive effect on 2-week disease outcomes … Antibiotics for otitis media with effusion in children (protocol). … Which antibiotic for acute otitis media? Drug Ther Bull. 1974 Jul 5; 12(14):53-4. PMID: 4142433.