Effect of antimicrobial de-escalation strategy on 14-day mortality among intensive care unit patients: a retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study with inverse probability-of-treatment weighting

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[1] Kollef MH(2016)Editorial Commentary: antimicrobial de-escalation: what’s in a name? Clin Infect Dis 62 1018-1020

[2] Micek ST(2001)Experience with a clinical guideline for the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia Crit Care Med 29 1109-1115

[3] Ibrahim EH(2001)Optimizing antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit setting Crit Care 5 189-195

[4] Ward S(2021)Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021 Intensive Care Med 47 1181-1247

[5] Sherman G(2020)Antimicrobial de-escalation in critically ill patients: a position statement from a task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and european Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) critically Ill Patients Study Group (ESGCIP) Intensive Care Med 46 245-265

[6] Schaiff R(2016)Current evidence on hospital antimicrobial stewardship objectives: a systematic review and meta-analysis Lancet Infect Dis 16 847-856

[7] Fraser VJ(2019)Efficacy and safety of antimicrobial de-escalation as a clinical strategy Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 17 79-88

[8] Kollef MH(2022)Antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU Semin Respir Crit Care Med 43 131-140

[9] Kollef MH(2019)De-escalation of antimicrobial therapy in critically ill hematology patients: a prospective cohort study Intensive Care Med 45 743-745

[10] Evans L(2018)Antibiotic use in the intensive care unit: optimization and de-escalation J Intensive Care Med 33 647-655