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Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy may shorten length of treatment and may improve survival—a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Appropriate antibiotic (AB) therapy remains a challenge in the intensive care unit (ICU). Procalcitonin (PCT)-guided AB stewardship could help optimize AB treatment and decrease AB-related adverse effects, but firm evidence is still lacking. Our aim was to compare the effects of PCT-guid...

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Autores principales: Papp, Márton, Kiss, Nikolett, Baka, Máté, Trásy, Domonkos, Zubek, László, Fehérvári, Péter, Harnos, Andrea, Turan, Caner, Hegyi, Péter, Molnár, Zsolt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37833778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-023-04677-2