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Clinicians often deviate from clinical guidelines for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis, particularly when recommendations rely on weak data or expert opinion.
This review highlights controversial topics in perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis and the data underlying current recommendations.
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May warrant caution amid prophylaxis controversies; leaves open need for targeted trials to resolve debates.
Although clinical guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis across a wide array of surgical procedures have been proposed by multidisciplinary groups of physicians and pharmacists, clinicians often deviate from recommendations. This is particularly true when recommendations are based on weak data or expert opinion. The goal of this review is to highlight certain common but controversial topics in perioperative prophylaxis and to focus on the data that does exist for the recommendations being made.
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