A Prospective Multicenter Clinical Observational Study on Vancomycin Efficiency and Safety With Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Author(s) -
Xiaoyu Liang,
Yaxing Fan,
Minjie Yang,
Jing Zhang,
Jufang Wu,
Jicheng Yu,
Jinhao Tao,
Guoping Lü,
Huifang Zhang,
Ruilan Wang,
Xiaoxing Wen,
Huayin Li,
Fengying Zhang,
Jingqin Hang,
Lihua Shen,
Zhongwei Zhang,
Qionghua Lin,
Fengming Fu,
Shengbin Wu,
Bo Shen,
Weifeng Huang,
Chunkang Chang,
Hong Zhang,
Qiwei Huang,
Yifan Shi,
Hong Ren,
Qing Yuan,
Xiaolian Song,
Xuming Luo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy680
Subject(s) - medicine , observational study , vancomycin , drug , intensive care medicine , therapeutic drug monitoring , multicenter study , pharmacology , randomized controlled trial , staphylococcus aureus , biology , bacteria , genetics
Vancomycin is a first-line antibiotic used for the treatment of severe gram-positive bacterial infections. Clinical guidelines recommend that the vancomycin trough concentration be 10-15 mg/L for regular infections and 15-20 mg/L for severe infections. We investigated whether increasing the vancomycin concentration would result in better clinical outcomes with sustainable adverse effects (AEs) in the Chinese population.
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