Intravenous-to-oral antibiotic switch therapy: a cross-sectional study in critical care units.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the oral switch (OS) stewardship intervention in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: This was a retrospective study with a convenience sample in two Brazilian ICUs from different hospitals in patients with sepsis receiving antibiotic therapy. The stewardship intervention included OS in patients diagnosed with sepsis when clinical stability was achieved.

Is "hit and run" a single word? The processing of irreversible binomials in neglect dyslexia.

The present study is the first neuropsychological investigation into the problem of the mental representation and processing of irreversible binomials (IBs), i.e., word pairs linked by a conjunction (e.