Pre-hospital antibiotic treatment and mortality caused by invasive meningococcal disease, adjusting for indication bias

BACKGROUND: Mortality from invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) has remained stable over the last thirty years and it is unclear whether pre-hospital antibiotherapy actually produces a decrease in this mortality. Our aim was to examine whether pre-hospital oral antibiotherapy reduces mortality from...

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Autores principales: Perea-Milla, Emilio, Olalla, Julián, Sánchez-Cantalejo, Emilio, Martos, Francisco, Matute-Cruz, Petra, Carmona-López, Guadalupe, Fornieles, Yolanda, Cayuela, Aurelio, García-Alegría, Javier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19344518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-95

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19344518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-95

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