Systematic Reviews of Antibiotics

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Reviewed September 2008

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Title:   Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antibiotics are used to treat infections, such as pneumonia, that are caused by bacteria. Over time however, many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem for individual patients and health care systems; ...
Date:   Jul 2005

Title:   Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antibiotics are used to treat infections, such as pneumonia or ear infections, that are caused by bacteria. Over time however, many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. This means that even when antibiotics are taken they may fail to cure an i...
Date:   Aug 2005

Title:   Antibiotics for the common cold and acute purulent rhinitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Colds are usually caused by viruses, which do not respond to antibiotics. However, antibiotics cause adverse effects, especially diarrhoea, and overuse can increase levels of antibiotic resistance in the community. Results do not show any benefit from t...
Date:   Apr 2005

Title:   Antibiotics for treating scrub typhus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Scrub typhus is a bacterial disease in regions of Asia and the Pacific. Antibiotics (chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and doxycycline) have been used to treat the disease. Resistance to these antibiotics has been reported.

Title:   Antibiotics for preventing infection in open limb fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Wound and bone infections are common complications following open fractures of the limbs. For more than 20 years, in developed countries, the use of antibiotics has been a part of a standard management protocol that also includes irrigation, surgical de...
Date:   Oct 2003

Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for surgery for proximal femoral and other closed long bone fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Wound infection and other hospital acquired infections can be life threatening in people following surgery for thigh and other long bone fractures. Antibiotics have been given routinely since the 1970s in an effort to reduce infections from bacteria suc...
Date:   Nov 2000

Title:   Antibiotics versus placebo for acute bacterial conjunctivitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute bacterial conjunctivitis is an infective condition in which the eyes become red and inflamed. The condition is not normally serious and usually recedes spontaneously within about a week. People with acute conjunctivitis are often given antibiotics...
Date:   Jan 2006

Title:   Antibiotics versus placebo for prevention of postoperative infection after appendicectomy.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antibiotic prophylaxis could be considered for routine in emergency appendectomies.Appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdominal pain requiring surgical intervention. This is associated with increased risk of postoperative complications, woun...
Date:   Apr 2005

Title:   Prolonged antibiotics for purulent bronchiectasis in children and adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The available evidence examining the use of prolonged antibiotic therapy in bronchiectasis suggests that this intervention incurs a small advantage. The evidence is derived from a small number of diverse trials and further research is needed to confirm ...
Date:   Feb 2007

Title:   Oral versus intravenous antibiotic treatment for febrile neutropenia in cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neutropenia (low white blood count) is a complication of cancer chemotherapy exposing patients to life-threatening infections. Current practice for neutropenic patients with fever is hospital admission and treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Febrile...
Date:   Aug 2004

Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for hernia repair.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The use of antibiotic prophylaxis for elective hernia repair is currently a controversial issue. Although elective hernia repair is considered a clean procedure, the rate of postoperative wound infection in many countries exceeds the one expected for cl...
Date:   Mar 2007

Title:   Home intravenous antibiotics for cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a serious genetic disease linked with recurrent lung infections. As a result of these, the person's lung disease becomes progressively worse. Lung infections are often treated with intravenous (IV) antibiotics in hospital for a n...
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Ursodeoxycholic acid and/or antibiotics for prevention of biliary stent occlusion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Malignant occlusion of the biliary tract can be relieved by insertion of a stent, which allows passage of the biliary fluid. However, stents often clog. This Review examines if ursodeoxycholic acid (a bile acid) and/or antibiotics may prevent clogging o...
Date:   Mar 2002

Title:   Empiric antibiotic coverage of atypical pathogens for community acquired pneumonia in hospitalized adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Agents which cause pneumonia are traditionally divided to 'typical' and 'atypical', each dictating a distinct antibiotic treatment. Atypical agents refer to certain bacteria - namely, Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila), Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pn...
Date:   Nov 2007

Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis in clean and clean-contaminated ear surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ear surgery, as surgery in general, can be divided into several categories: clean, clean-contaminated, contaminated and dirty surgery. Postoperative complications can include wound infection, discharge from the outer ear canal, labyrinthitis and graft f...
Date:   May 2004

Title:   Antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia in adult outpatients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pneumonia, or infection involving the lungs, is responsible for a significant number of deaths worldwide. Pneumonia is especially life-threatening in older people and people with other illnesses that may affect the immune system (such as diabetes). Anti...
Date:   Feb 2004

Title:   Antibiotic therapy for prophylaxis against infection of pancreatic necrosis in acute pancreatitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute pancreatitis is a common life-threatening disease which has no known treatment. Severe inflammation occurs in the pancreas, a digestive gland, and leads to abdominal pain and shock. In severe attacks, patients may develop pancreatic necrosis (gang...
Date:   Jul 2006

Title:   Topical antibiotics without steroids for chronically discharging ears with underlying eardrum perforations
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is an infection of the middle ear with pus and a persistent perforation in the eardrum. It is a common cause of preventable hearing impairment, particularly in low and middle-income countries. This review assesses...
Date:   Aug 2005

Title:   Prophylactic antibiotics for transcervical intrauterine procedures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The lower genital tract is an area which is abundant with normal flora (resident bacteria) so that operative procedures which pass through it may be at increased risk for infection. The operative procedure may cause contamination of the uterine cavity w...
Date:   Apr 2007

Title:   Antibiotics for treating acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sickle cell disease affects millions of people throughout the world. Acute chest syndrome is a major cause of illness and death in people with sickle cell disease. Symptoms include fever, chest pain and a raised white blood cell count. Acute infection o...
Date:   Feb 2007
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