A de-escalation protocol for febrile neutropenia cases and its impact on carbapenem resistance: A retrospective, quasi-experimental single-center study

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Abeer Alshukairi (مؤلف), Haleema Alserehi (مؤلف), Aiman El-Saed (مؤلف), Mouhammed Kelta (مؤلف), Jalil U. Rehman (مؤلف), Farrukh A. Khan (مؤلف), Hanadi Alsalmi (مؤلف), Majda Alattas (مؤلف), Muhammad Aslam (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Elsevier, 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Our objective was to evaluate the impact of using an imipenem de-escalation protocol for empiric febrile neutropenia on the development of carbapenem resistance.A pre-post intervention design was used. The intervention was adopting the imipenem de-escalation approach, which began on January 1, 2012....