Safety of Stopping Antibiotics Prescribed “Just in Case” – Comparison of Mortality, Readmissions and Clostridium difficile in Patients with Accepted Stewardship Interventions Compared with Declined

BACKGROUND: Antibiotics are often prescribed “just in case” when clinical conditions mimic an infection, such as the shortness of breath in heart failure, the erythema of venous stasis or when bacterial culture results are misleading such as asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) and C difficile colonizatio...

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Autores principales: Staicu, Mary, Brundige, Mary Lourdes, Datta, Siddhant, Laguio-Vila, Maryrose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631231/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1238

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