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Procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy and hospitalization in patients with lower respiratory tract infections: a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections like acute bronchitis, exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and community-acquired pneumonia are often unnecessarily treated with antibiotics, mainly because of physicians' difficulties to distinguish viral from bacterial cause and to...
Autores principales: | Schuetz, Philipp, Christ-Crain, Mirjam, Wolbers, Marcel, Schild, Ursula, Thomann, Robert, Falconnier, Claudine, Widmer, Isabelle, Neidert, Stefanie, Blum, Claudine A, Schönenberger, Ronald, Henzen, Christoph, Bregenzer, Thomas, Hoess, Claus, Krause, Martin, Bucher, Heiner C, Zimmerli, Werner, Müller, Beat |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1947969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17615073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-102 |
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