Systematic Reviews of Antibiotics

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Appendectomy versus antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical causes of acute abdominal pain. Appendectomy is the treatment of choice, however surgical complications are inherent to operative treatment. Recent research on primary antibiotic therapy (without su...
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Methods of decreasing infection to improve outcomes after liver resections
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Liver resections involve removing a part of the liver mainly for cancer or pre-cancerous growths. Liver resections are major operations associated with about 3.5% risk of death and about 10% to 15% risk of major post-operative complications (defined as...
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   One dose per day compared to multiple doses per day of gentamicin for treatment of suspected or proven sepsis in neonates
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Gentamicin is a commonly used antibiotic that is very effective in treating bacterial infections in neonates. However, gentamicin may cause adverse effects on auditory and renal functions that may be related to the dosage, interval and in turn the drug...
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Surgery versus non-surgical treatment for bronchiectasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Removal of affected parts of the lung is often carried out in patients with bronchiectasis. A review was performed with the aim of identifying evidence for the benefit of surgery in bronchiectasis. No randomised controlled trials were identified so it i...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing meningitis in patients with basilar skull fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Basilar skull fracture (7% to 15.8% of all skull fractures) places the central nervous system in contact with bacteria from the nose and throat and may be associated with cerebrospinal fluid leakage (occurring in 2% to 20.8% of patients). Blood or water...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Short courses of antibiotics for children and adults with bronchiectasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is a paucity of evidence to conclude whether short courses of antibiotics (i.e. less than or equal to four weeks) are equivalent or superior to placebo in the treatment of stable or exacerbation state bronchiectasis. One single study showed some b...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Antibiotics versus control for toxoplasma retinochoroiditis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis occurs when a parasite called toxoplasma gondii gets into the retina (the light sensitive layer inside the eye) and the choroid (layer of the eyeball near the retina). This causes inflammation that can scar the retina and re...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Prophylaxis for Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in non-HIV immunocompromised patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pneumocystis jiroveci is a fungus causing pneumonia mainly among patients with an impaired immune system, such as those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), cancer patients, following organ transplantation, patients receiving immune sup...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Azithromycin for treating uncomplicated malaria
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   To help prevent the malaria parasite from developing resistance to antimalarial medicines, the WHO recommends the use of combination therapy, where malaria infections are treated with more than one drug simultaneously. As azithromycin is an antibiotic t...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   De-escalation of antimicrobial treatment for adults with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment is defined as a combination of antibiotics which act against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. Broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment can reduce mortality rates in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or sep...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Anti-pseudomonal beta-lactams for the initial, empirical, treatment of febrile neutropenia: comparison of beta-lactams
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer patients develop neutropenia, a decrease in the neutrophil subset of the white blood cells, as a result of chemotherapy. Neutropenia exposes patients to infections, mainly bacterial. Without antibiotic treatment these infections may be fatal, the...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Percutaneous lines for delivering intravenous antibiotics in people with cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In cystic fibrosis, patients require prolonged courses of intravenous antibiotics. There are several devices which can be used to administer intravenous antibiotics, including peripheral cannulae (which we have termed short intravenous lines) and percut...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Troleandomycin as an oral corticosteroid sparing agent in stable asthma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Troleandomycin is a macrolide antibiotic with established effects in the treatment of infections. It alters the breakdown of corticosteroid drugs, so may be of benefit in asthma. This review found three small studies, that provide no evidence to justify...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for transrectal prostate biopsy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and transrectal prostate biopsy is the procedure to obtain tissue for the histological diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate. Despite the fact that infective complications after transr...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Elective gallbladder surgery is the most common elective surgical procedure in the abdomen. Antibiotic prophylaxis is a common conduct in open cholecystectomy, and it is also applied to patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy without any proof ...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Early versus late pre-intensive care unit admission broad spectrum antibiotics for severe sepsis in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sepsis is a serious medical condition characterized by an inflammatory response to an infection that can affect the whole body. The patient may develop an inflammatory response to microbes in their blood, urine, lungs, skin, or other tissues. Sepsis is ...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Intratympanic gentamicin for Meniere's disease or syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Meniere's disease is characterised by three major symptoms: rotational dizziness (vertigo), hearing loss and ringing in the ears (tinnitus), sometimes accompanied by aural fullness. Intratympanic gentamicin is a relatively new therapy with promising r...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Systemic antibiotics for chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic rhinosinusitis is a common health problem which significantly affects quality of life. Various groups of antibiotics have been studied in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis but the results are controversial and there are problems with study...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Antibiotics for mastitis in breastfeeding women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inflammation of the breast, or mastitis, can be infective or non-infective. Infective mastitis is one of the most common infections experienced by breastfeeding women. The condition (infective or not) varies in severity, ranging from mild symptoms with ...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Interventions for replacing missing teeth: antibiotics at dental implant placement to prevent complications
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Missing teeth can sometimes be replaced with dental implants to which a crown, bridge or denture can be attached. Bacteria introduced during placement of implants can lead to infection and sometimes implant failure. It appears that the oral administrati...
Date:   Jun 2010

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