Assessment of vancomycin use in chronic haemodialysis patients: room for improvement

Background. Vancomycin is frequently prescribed for the management of infections in haemodialysis patients. We evaluated the appropriateness of vancomycin use in our chronic haemodialysis population. Methods. Charts of all chronic haemodialysis patients who received vancomycin between 1 March 2003 a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation dialysis, transplantation, 2008-11, Vol.23 (11), p.3690-3695
Hauptverfasser:	Zvonar, Rosemary, Natarajan, Sabrina, Edwards, Cedric, Roth, Virginia
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Biological and medical sciences Catheters, Indwelling - microbiology Chronic Disease Dose-Response Relationship, Drug drug use evaluation Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management Female haemodialysis Humans Intensive care medicine Kidney Diseases - complications Kidney Diseases - therapy Male Medical sciences Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure Outcome Assessment (Health Care) Renal Dialysis Renal failure Retrospective Studies Staphylococcal Infections - drug therapy Staphylococcal Infections - etiology Staphylococcus aureus Treatment Outcome vancomycin Vancomycin - therapeutic use
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